Points of Praxis

Moved to a new blog...

2009-04-13T04:40:00+00:00

I've moved to a new blog "site" at http://dissertationramblings.blogspot.com/ if you want to find/check me out there. I'm keeping this blog up here, though, to help w/ any of my colleagues who might ...

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Rhetoric of Autism Blogs

2007-02-22T14:51:25+00:00

An interesting conversation is going on at Autismvox regarding the representation and privacy of autistic children in autism blogs written by their parents. Ms. Clark, ...

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Beddelheim and the Rhetoric of Blame

2007-02-21T04:51:03+00:00

In Bruno Beddelheim's book The Empty Fortress (1967), Beddelheim, an Austrian Holocaust survivor with a PhD in art history, argues that autism is an emotional disturbance brought on by a mother's subconscious rejection of the child. Beddelheim argues that because a ...

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I was at a "party" the ...

2007-02-16T15:36:55+00:00

I was at a "party" the other night where a friend of mine commented on the necessity of MLK day: "You know that MLK Day is just a chance to keep black people happy. It's a gimme holiday to pacify them." I, then, proceeded to pick my jaw up off the ...

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I suppose because it's been one ...

2007-02-16T15:34:35+00:00

I suppose because it's been one whirlwind event after another, I should post and say that "I passed my comps!!" Yea!! All the studying paid off. Yes, students--study, study, study. And, not at the last minute, mind you. Now, where's my ...

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Some good points to ...

2007-01-05T03:30:17+00:00

Some good points to remember: Daniel Chandler writes in The Basics: Semiotics, "From Plato to Levi-Strauss, the spoken word has held a privileged position in the Western worldview, being regarded as intimately involved in our sense of self and constituting a sign ...

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Some humorous comments about ...

2007-01-03T01:28:59+00:00

Some humorous comments about professors at Ratemyprofessor.com You can't cheat in her class because no one knows the answers. His class was like milk, it was good for 2 weeks. Houston, we have a problem. Space cadet of a teacher, isn't quite attached to ...

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Some ways to start our ...

2007-01-02T01:23:01+00:00

Some ways to start our responses... "A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be." Aristotle, Poetics "My way is to begin with the beginning." Lord Byron, ...

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Genre and the New Rhetoric Kenneth ...

2007-01-02T01:07:40+00:00

Genre and the New Rhetoric Kenneth Bruffee, social construction and genre theory. "knowledge is something that is socially constructed in response to communal needs, goals, and contexts." "the composing process of texts traditionally regarded as ...

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Sonja Foss's Rhetorical Criticism ...

2007-01-01T21:48:09+00:00

Sonja Foss's Rhetorical Criticism Neo-Aristotelian Criticism: Examine rhetorical triangle. Relationship b/t speaker, listener, text, and context. Examine canons: invention (logos, ethos, pathos), arrangement, style, memory, delivery. ...

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