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I don’t know if anyone still talks about discourse theory in composition. But that is what I want to talk about. Discourse theory. I have been teaching a new writing […]

Students of rhetoric are familiar with a Kenneth Burke passage that describes a parlor in which people have gathered, where the give and take of conversation has been happening freely […]

Last week, I participated in a meeting with other teachers who were in their first hours of teaching a writing class in their field. The challenge for them was that […]

The title of this is not merely a grammatical quandary. It is also an ever-present reality. So here on the last day of 2016, as I have done on the […]

Here we are again. Christians around the world are preparing to celebrate the incarnation, the time when we believe God became human and lived among us. This seems as good […]