Polyphony
a note to myself to read this
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/jon1.htm
thesis “proposal” for MAWG
Cross-posted on MAWG:
Polemics and Irenics in Argument – it’s a start?
In her essay “The Womanization of Rhetoric,“ Sally Miller Gearhart writes that she believes “that any intent to persuade is an act of violence“ because the persuader has an intention of changing someone (53), and proposes that instead we should “forsake all this and think [...]
my five minute presentation tomorrow, draft one
I just wrote this, and I just practiced reading it. It clocked in at 5 minutes 30 seconds. I have to cut at least 30 seconds, preferrably more so that I can slow down my reading, but here is draft one:
I’d like to begin with a story. A few weeks ago, I was attending a [...]
ok - this is where I am going
Here it goes. To be completely honest, I keep changing ideas on a central focus every freakin’ five minutes, hours, whatever. It keeps changing on me. Now, at 2:48 in the morning, approximately 11 hours before I have to present, I am finally having my moment of lucidity. I want to focus on the polyphony [...]
a polyphony of voices
Emily and I were talking, and I asked her, “why can’t the ideas in my head do the work for me?” and she replied that that would be an awesome comic, where ideas were like dogs or slaves that did the work for you. And then, I said, maybe it’s a good paper idea, where [...]
