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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Posts primarily on technology for content creation, distribution, and consumption. Also, see PoetPonders for the technology of writing.
Do we work from home or work at home? There’s a distinction: do you work for yourself at home or do you work for a…
Comments closedAs 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 closed“What is your opinion of the #BlackLivesMatter and George Floyd protests?” a follower asked, rhetorically. “You’re not commenting on your blog or publicly on social…
Comments closedNow that every educator is supposedly delivering an online education to students, we need to educate parents, students, administrators, politicians and even some of our…
Comments closedThese are the tricks used by websites to increase click-through rates: Second-person language First-person, sometimes, as relationship builder Hyperbole about knowledge and information Offers of…
Comments closedWe rely a lot on the reliability of various Internet service providers. We expect our broadband service to function at a reasonable speed every minute…
Comments closedI have followed the last two weeks as professors in fields that supposedly study critical thinking, decision making, fallacies, persuasion, and so on, have quickly…
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 closedFar from the perfect professor with eidetic recall and charisma, I am the first to announce to students that I will make mistakes during a…
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