Category Archives: rhetoric

Sometimes the “Rhetoric of Change” Really Means Change

Posted on March 1, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I wanted to share Norm Scheiber’s article “The Audacity of Data” on Obama’s economic theory. It seems that Obama strays from traditional political philosophy in favor of something which Scheiber labels as “non-ideological” but which I might refer to as … Continue reading →

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Week One, Thursday

Posted on August 23, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

1. Collect writing samples 2. Intro lecture: what is rhetoric? hard to define, persuasion more than that, rhetoric is social glue– social conception of knowledge and knowledge exchange art of negotiating language in the act of negotiation Kenneth Burke: resolving … Continue reading →

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Two Conversations?

Posted on May 6, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Finally got around to creating a link list today: included every blog currently in my RSS. God I love Safari’s easy RSS folder organization. Yummy. I decided to “segregate” the conversations: one list for English / academic discussions and another … Continue reading →

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