Monthly Archives: May 2007

conflict, issues, and audience in the rhetorical situation

Hunsaker and Smith critique previous discussions of the rhetorical situation for not adequately taking into account the perceptions of the rhetor and audience surrounding the issues at stake. The perception and resolution of issues (defined as the actual and potential … Continue reading

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TagCrowd of draft of chapter 1 of thesis

action audience blogger blogosphere blogs city classroom community concept contact critical critique democracy democratic describes different discourse engage fraser groups habermas however ideal instead internet issues life metaphor model notes order others people potential private public rhetoric social society sphere … Continue reading

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TagCrowd

Anne-Marie Deitering (OSU Valley Library) is (at this very moment!) doing her presentation for Writing Intensive Curriculum, titled “Read, Write, Share: Emerging Technologies in the Writing Classroom.” She just showed us TagCrowd, which is amazing. I just pasted in a … Continue reading

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note to myself

I am bad at keeping notes of things to read or do. My to-do lists fly all over the place and eventually get lost. Help me out, blog. Mike Edwards, while reflecting on what was going on twenty years ago, … Continue reading

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what is the role of an intellectual?

From Edward Said, who argues for, in a way, a conflation of the public writer and the public intellectual: “[D]uring the last years of the twentieth century, the writer has taken on more and more of the intellectual’s adversarial attributes … Continue reading

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