Like many students, I started to search for the courses with the clearest, most rigid grading criteria. “Writing” became a euphemism in my experience for…
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Being on the academic job market, technically a week or so past my MFA confirmation, I thought it would be clear that the MFA in…
Comments closedBy 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…
Comments closedFirst-year composition and general education public speaking courses tend to be generic. Maybe there’s a good reason I don’t yet understand, but both courses tend…
Comments closedWhen we discuss rhetoric in our first-year composition (FYC) courses, it is easy to overlook issues of philosophical and ideological bias. True, we tell our…
Comments closedAm I a rogue rhetorician? I have been giving this a fair amount of thought, especially as I reread journal articles and books by the…
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