Working on my grad class
A New Media Approach to Teaching Classical Rhetoric I need to read this when I am not inundated with grading.
View ArticleWhat is Academic Literacy?
Since I work with students to help them improve their writing, I was looking for something specifically on writing in academia. These notes are more for grad students on entering the disciplinary...
View ArticleGrad Class Suggestions
I will be teaching a grad class in the fall. This CHE fora post from seniorscholar seemed particularly useful: As much as possible, make students do all the work — I don’t mean “do all the work you...
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Reading List
I’ve gotten stackloads of books this summer to read. I’ve mostly been doing the fiction recently. I did finish The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Intorduction by James A. Herrick, that I thought...
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First day of grad class
First night of grad class is over. We all survived. I was very nervous. I bet they were too. Since I want to end on a high note, I’m going to talk about my shortcomings last night first. The bummer: I...
View ArticleA Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses rhetoric; supported by Aristotle but reviled by Plato. Guests include Angie Hobbs, Ceri Sullivan and Tom Healy. 42 minutes I think I might load this onto the class...
View ArticleDigital Rhetoric
This last month we were talking about digital rhetoric, or new media, or ____(fill in your term here) in a meeting. Then I saw this Digital Blog Carnival. It’s not brand new (June of 2012), but I like...
View ArticleShould I show this to my grad students?
It is not quite funny enough to be persuasive, but it gets close.
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History and Theory of Rhetoric: A Retrospective
For the first time this semester, I taught the five week section of the graduate introduction to rhetoric. This was the first time I taught as part of the team. I wanted to be as accurate to...
View ArticleWhat Can You Do with a Graduate Degree?
Let’s take Klondike’s “Five Second Challenge to Glory.” Do something hard for five seconds. Brainstorm (that’s something we do well, right?) answers to the question: What can you do with a graduate...
View ArticlePostcolonialism Musings
I am on a graduate thesis committee. (This is a first for me. I have read and edited graduate theses many times, but this is the first time I will be a part of the process of writing one–aside from my...
View ArticleRelevant Readings for Greek Rhetoric
“Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric.” “Paul and Sophistic Rhetoric” Gorgias “The Scandal of Sophism” Aristotle on the modes of persuasion (appeals): ethos, logos, pathos
View ArticleRelevant Readings for Roman Rhetoric
Quintilian Institutes of Oratory, Book II, chapter 15: What rhetoric is Cicero’s De Oratore Book II, sections 178-184, 185-216, 333-340: on ethos, pathos, logos Cicero’s Canon and its relationship to...
View ArticleQuotes on Rhetoric
John Poulakos On rhetoric: Rhetoric is the art which seeks to capture in opportune moments that which is appropriate and attempts to suggest that which is possible. On sophists: “The Sophists conceived...
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iBooks Syllabi
I created two of my syllabi using iBooks and then saved them as PDFs. They look good. (Not as amazing as an actual book, but good.) I had fun thinking of visual rhetoric connections to choose the...
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History and Theory of Rhetoric: Retrospective 2013
Last year the course was once a week. This year, we had it at the “normal” time, which meant it met twice a week. I liked that organization a lot better. I felt like the students had more time to...
View ArticleCFP: For Adjuncts!
“Remix is_________” Miami University ‘s English Graduate and Adjunct Association Symposium March 14, 2014 full name / name of organization: Rachel Oriol/ Miami University of Ohio contact email:...
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Visual Knowledge in the Legal Field
Sherwin, Richard K., Neal Feigenson, and Christina Spiesel. “What Is Visual Knowledge, and What Is It Good for? Potential Ethnographic Lessons from the Field of Legal Practice.” Visual Anthropology 20...
View ArticleLiterature of 9/11
I saw this recently and thought it was an exceptional project. The Literature of 9/11 was compiled by a graduate class at the University of Maryland College Park. They also mapped the literature of...
View ArticleFrom Dissertation to Book
Turning your dissertation into a book? Some good information from Theresa MacPhail, including the (possibly shocking) notion that “a dissertation is not a book.” Note: I am in the process of getting my...
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