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The Rhetorical Placing of the Casey Anthony Trial
Image via Wikipedia Here at my mother’s house the conversation centers around the Casey Anthony trial. She was interested in it to see if Anthony would be found guilty of killing her daughter. I was interested in it to see how people talk about whether she would be found guilty of killing her daughter. Through…
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Opportunity, to teach
This article is timed perfectly for me. I’ve been thinking about how to re-create (recreate?) my public speaking class. Like a computer, public speaking gets slow, frustrating, and doesn’t help you produce anything good unless you reformat it and do a clean install of the operating system from time to time. This essay is really…
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Style and Performance and Argument
Image via Wikipedia Lama Tsony on Crazy Wisdom Crazy Wisdom is a new film about the life of Chogyam Trunga. I like this piece from Tricycle because of the metaphor – “he embodied a quality of fearlessness that was like licking honey off a razor blade.” Getting the best out of a precarious and harmful situation…
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Internet Debate Workshop in the Arctic Circle
UVM debater Karen Nelson, one of the founders of the University of Tampere Debate Society with me on the webcam. This morning was my second encounter with the debaters from The University of Tampere, Finland in a debate context and I have to say that again I am impressed. We did about an hour and…
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The Finale of the First On Campus Public Debate Series
Debate on Obama’s Nuclear Reactor Policy from Steve Llano on Vimeo. Here is the video from our last of the first public debate series we held on campus this semester. It was a fully student organized, student led, and student run initiative. And it was a great success I think, except that I would have…
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Closed Adjudication and the Ballance of Learning
Things are ramping up toward the white party tonight and the grand final round of WUDC 2010. Great tournament and great people. Been thinking a bit about the final closed rounds. Closed adjudication is something we rarely, if ever do in the Northeast BP region of the United States. I have usually been against it,…
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Argumentation Books I Can’t Do Without
Chatting with a friend of mine online the other day and he asked me for my favorite argumentation\debate books. Thought I would list them here as well. Here’s the list I came up with: The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation by Perelman and Olbrects-Tyteca A masterwork, read it only 2 times all the way…
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Pedagogy of Skillful Means
My body seems to know when I have weekends off from debate and schedules all my illnesses for those times. Yesterday and today I’ve been fighting a nasty cough and not really feeling motivated to do much of anything. I’m about to take my laundry down in a few, and I went grocery shopping yesterday,…
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Mandatory Debate Training?
Here is an article by Susan Herbst advocating for mandatory debate training as a return to the principles of the civic in the U.S. Of course, this article oversimplifies. But the conection between participation in debate and the practice of civility seem questionable. For the general public, I think the connection is axiomatic. Of course…
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Unintended Hiatus
Apologies for the blog silence, but I must admit that since arriving back in the U.S. I have been enjoying a life of nearly constant work. In the mornings and afternoons I am writing and researching, and making great progress. After lunch, I do a little planning for teaching, both the summer course I am…
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