Monthly Archives: January 2008

dear rhet-comp folks

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Michael

take this survey

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images of the not unforeseeable

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Michael

In Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, Derrida argues that “September 11″ is not an event (in the sense that Heidegger uses the term) because, in part, it was not unforeseeable. Of course, … Continue reading →

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“I will fight for the little guy”

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Michael

Via Viz. I have to be honest: I haven’t followed a second of Oregonian Senate electoral politics (even while my fingers and eyes have been glued to CNN and NPR’s websites on the presidential primaries). However, these ads are pretty … Continue reading →

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The Future is Now: Presentation to the RU Board of Governors

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Michael

From the WPA listserve (which I just joined a few days ago), Richard Miller’s 7-minute presentation to the Rutger University’s Board of Governors: I would say that the Humanities, in the last 10-20 years, somewhat lost its way in becoming … Continue reading →

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ethics in technical communication

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Michael

I’m reading my technical writing students’ homework on ethics in documents. They were assigned to find an article, advertisement, or other document that contains untrue or misleading information and discuss (in a memo to me) the ethics behind it. In … Continue reading →

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