By May, I’ll be half-way through an MFA in Film and Digital Technology. People ask why a Ph.D. in rhetoric would need an MFA. My…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: rhetoric
Should we teach our digital composition students the tricks of the trade for bloggers and other new media publishers? The ancient texts on rhetoric discuss…
Yesterday, I defended my doctoral dissertation and paid the last $120 in fees to the University of Minnesota. For the cost of tuition, they really…
I attended Computers and Writing 2009 earlier this month and returned with mixed emotions. First, the negatives — so I can end on the positives of…
My first week of teaching this year was frustrating. The initial classroom was unfinished, lacking electrical outlets and the standard overhead LCD projector. This killed…
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley May 2008 Issue April 11, 2008 Health Experts versus the Internet “I read on the Internet that the real cause of….”…
As some of us mourn (complain) the state of the Internet, I wonder how we can teach students to write and think in ways that…