The Souls of Readers: A Marketing “Guide”
To start the week off, I present here what I am calling a branding/marketing/self-promotion anecdote. (I wasn’t able to fit this under a hashtag, so I’ll just go with the […]
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Freewriting, Literacy, and the Key of E-flat
I am on a quest to fully understand and explain literacy—how it works, why some people do or don’t attain it, why it matters, what motives exist for it, how […]
How Far Will the Rules Carry Us?
And swiftly, another school year draws to a close. When I am teaching mostly writing, I tend to lose track of where the time is going. I find myself working […]
The Subject is Discourse
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 […]
Parables for Our Time: Of Burke’s Parlor and the Braindead Megaphone
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 […]