Category Archives: Polyphony

a note to myself to read this

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/jon1.htm

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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