Tag: rhetoric

  • Writing Studies

    Writing studies seems so much more serious than anything going on in speech communication rhetoric to me these days. I think what’s most attractive is the focus on the idea of pedagogy. This requires the assumption that people can change if we give them opportunity to do so, and that opportunity exists in the carefully…

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  • Rhetoric is too Important to be left to the institutional rhetoricians

    Rhetoric historians – I know you are reading. Please let me know what the analogue is to this issue? I beg you, I need to read some of the historical material. Rhetoric has been ruined by the Institutional Rhetoricians. By this I mean rhetoricians who think NCA is more important than rhetoric; that NCA represents…

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  • Future Rhetoric

    A Lot is going on right now for me this September and it’s all rotating around the idea of the future of rhetoric. Got a very interesting call for papers for the journal Informal Logic about a special issue on this topic. Got an email from the President of the University about downsizing and the…

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  • The Canonical Debate Lab is on a Mission to Clean Up Internet Debate

    https://anchor.fm/inthebin/episodes/The-Canonical-Debate-Lab-Can-Internet-Debating-Have-Value-e10ao4h In this latest episode, I chat with the co-founders of the Canonical Debate Lab about their project to establish a way to collect, store, and provide arguments to the world to improve decision making. I’m joined by Timothy High and Bentley Davis to talk about how computers, coding, and the internet can hopefully improve…

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  • New Podcast Episode: Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Post-Structuralism

    Dr. Lee Pierce, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo joins Dr. Dan the Renaissance Man and Steve for a discussion on the relationship of post-structuralism to rhetoric, graduate school pedagogy, and whether or not it matters if you have read everything Derrida ever wrote. Have a listen here!

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  • That’s Not Relevant

    Relevance is a part of argumentation, not a rule or container that surrounds or determines what kinds of arguments are permitted. It’s not a referee and it’s not a boundary. Consider relevance an ask, or an indicator, that you are not doing a very good job of sharing your view with your audience/interlocutor. They are…

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  • Kenneth Burke’s Terministic Screens – A Conversation

    https://anchor.fm/inthebin/episodes/Kenneth-Burkes-Terministic-Screens-eten1q Here’s the latest episode of my podcast, In The Bin, where we discuss Kenneth Burke’s idea of “terministic screens.” Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below or you can record a comment or question and send it to us through the Anchor website.

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  • Discussing Kenneth Burke’s Essay “The Virtues and Limitations of Debunking”

    https://anchor.fm/inthebin/episodes/Kenneth-Burkes-The-Virtues-and-Limitations-of-Debunking-et26ah This essay is one of my absolute favorites to teach in argumentation. My friend Dan and I take it on in an hour long conversation on the latest podcast. Every year the students complain about this essay mostly because of Burke’s eccentric writing style. I’ve tried different ways of teaching it over the years,…

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  • What is the Future of Speech, Oratory, and Rhetoric?

    Delighted to participate in the 2021 World Speech Day at the invitation of Simon Gibson who founded World Speech Day to celebrate and educate everyone on the power of oratory. On this panel we all consider the question of what the future of speech looks like for humanity after the global pandemic experience we’ve all…

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  • New In the Bin Podcast on the Teaching of Rhetoric and the Fallacies

    You can also listen to this episode and others at Anchor.fm/inthebin where we host the show. At that site you can drop us a voice note or message as well. What other topics in speech, presentation, oratory, argumentation, or debate would you like to hear about? We are open to all ideas.

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