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Productive Mess Hits the Airwaves

Here’s some shameless self-promotion: the new issue of Kairos includes my article with Nathaniel Rivers and Ryan Weber “Productive Mess: First-Year Composition Takes the University’s Agonism Online.” The article has two main arguments: first, it discusses how to better integrate … Continue reading

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Tour of the Internets

Here’s a work in progress. Next semester I am giving my students a tour of the internet early in our digital citizenship course. Please feel free to make suggestions in the comments. General Resources for starting a blog-type thingie Rands … Continue reading

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Jack McCoy, Ciceronian Rhetoric, and the art of Pathetic Conclusions

Tomorrow I’m planning a quick, introductory lecture on Ciceronian argument. As such, I’ll be referring to the six-part structure extracted from the Catiline Orations and discussed at length in De Inventione. In brief: Exordium [prepares the hearer… this can be … Continue reading

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Rowan Update

Its been awhile since I have put up anything on Rowan, and I thought I should share our good news. Rowan has finished her final round of chemotherapy. Hooray! We’ve been having some trouble with her temporary prosthetic (as in … Continue reading

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Lessig’s New Book

One of my heroes, Lawrence Lessig, has a new book out. While the website is up, the book isn’t available for free yet (but I’m sure it will be soon). In the meantime, he recently gave an interview with Colbert. … Continue reading

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Jim Corder as an Ethic for Blogging

Today I presented Jim Corder’s “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love” to my expository writing class. I believe Corder’s propositions for “writing with love” serve as particularly apt principles for approaching digital writing. Corder pushes for five core values: The … Continue reading

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Expository Writing as Digital Citizenship

Its a new semester, and I am teaching two sections of upper-division expository writing. I am excited to return to a previous approach: blogging as composition. Last time I tried this with freshman we and we were quite pleased with … Continue reading

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Now it feels like New Years

Tomorrow marks the first day of second semester here at USF, and I am in the middle of my “holiday” ritual–cleaning out the inboxes. Three email accounts, 2000 combined messages. Ugh, ugh, ugh. I do this at the beginning of … Continue reading

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Year in Review

Here’s the “first line of every month” post January: Since I’m another of the mad scientists who birthed this approach, I’ll throw in some quick reflections February: To everyone who asked… yes I am still alive March: I wanted to … Continue reading

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Auditorium

Via ZeFrank, a great flash game called auditorium. I’m stuck on 3.4. I’m not one for flash games, but this is very well done.

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