Remarkably few doctoral program graduates obtain the tenure-track university posts to which most aspire. I often envied the Ph.D. computer scientists working at tech companies…
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Art and design as rhetorical devices and the rhetoric of art and design.
As readers of this blog and colleagues familiar with my approach to rhetoric know, I argue consistently that rhetoricians should be as familiar with statistics…
Comments closedTeaching traditional “English” was never my ambition. When I considered teaching as a high school student, I wanted to teach media: journalism, photography, and television…
Comments closedProfessors advising me, colleagues at universities, and classmates remind me that as I prepare to return to the academic job market, I need a clear…
Comments closedWhy is ‘a’ an a? What is a? It’s more than one sound. To the deaf, it’s a glyph used to build words, but not…
Comments closedFilm is capital intensive, in the economic sense. The making of a movie involves individual human capital, social capital, natural capital, manufactured capital, and financial…
Comments closedWhen people in the field of rhetoric discuss social construction and cultural influences on creativity, I often wonder if we are too quick to dismiss…
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