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Performance Reporting: Rhetoric vs. Reality

Jonathan Breul wrote 1 day ago: "Performance Reporting . . ." by Richard Boyle Recent years have seen a growing emphasis o … more →

Tags: Performance-Management, Transparency, Australia, boyle, Canada, Ireland, Outcomes, Outputs, Performance

The Rhetoric Countdown: Keith Olbermann on Health Care - "Peril of President and Congress"?

saynsumthn wrote 2 days ago: 12-16-2009 Is Keith Olbermann now using the “Rhetoric” which Pelosi cried about? Calling … more →

Tags: Health Care, obama, George Tiller, Pro-Life, Tea Party, Nancy Pelosi, Keith Olbermann, Peril, kill the bill

postmodernism1 comment

rebeccamourani wrote 3 days ago: this book is the result of a group work with a classmate in my MA studies. the brief was to find the … more →

Tags: All, Design Works, Book Design, critic, Discourse, Group Work, NDU, Postmodernism

Pre-semester Dry Run

bennett1974 wrote 3 days ago: Or dress rehearsal, or shakeout, or what have you. So I started this thing in order to have a place … more →

Tags: audience, Current Events, Debate, Grammar & Mechanics, Readings, the Group Essay, Vocabulary

Family First NZ: Jokes About Sexy Jesus Still Not Funny5 comments

Eric Repphun wrote 3 days ago: And now for a fascinating example of the recent reception history of a religious figure … St M … more →

Tags: language, Living, Politics, Reference, Religion, texts, advertising, church, humour

What were those lyrics again?

theuncertainbell wrote 3 days ago: How cute is this? This kid isn’t all that different from most of us who listen to music. I was … more →

Tags: NAS, Jay-Z, Jason Mraz, Lyrics

Yancey, Kathleen Blake. "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key."

drewloewe wrote 4 days ago: Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key.” CCC 56.2 (20 … more →

Tags: Multimodal Composition, Visual Rhetoric, Literacy, 2004

Hariman, Robert and Lucaites, John Louis (2008) "Visual Tropes and Late-Modern Emotion in U.S. Public Culture"

drewloewe wrote 4 days ago: Hariman, Robert and Lucaites, John Louis (2008) “Visual Tropes and Late-Modern Emotion in U.S. … more →

Tags: Visual Rhetoric, Pathos

Videogames and Narrative

Ruben R. wrote 5 days ago: For those of you who do not know, I am a Rhetoric and Writing student at the University of Texas at … more →

Tags: game studies, Narrative, Game, Burke, Pentad, School, Presentation, pong, zork

the rhetoric of the Yes Men Canada Climate Hoax1 comment

casuist wrote 5 days ago: I was interviewed this evening by CFAX’s Adam Stirling about the Canada Climate Hoax by the cu … more →

Tags: message campaign, Political communication, Power Relations, Speculative, Adam Stirling, Allan "bury the lede" Woods, Allan Woods, Canwest News Service, CFAX

"The Purloined Letter" Lives

bkrajewski wrote 5 days ago: You will recall from Poe’s “The Purloined Letter,” a story that has received a gre … more →

Tags: Literature, Philosophy, Edgar Poe, Jacques Derrida, Perception, Psychology, The Purloined Letter

The Danger of Experts2 comments

Ryan Hoover wrote 1 week ago: There’s been several factors motivating this particular post. One is a series of conversations … more →

Tags: General, knowledge Creation, knowledge gap, Expertise

A Free Something, Part Zwei -- Bringing the Masses into TFP

bkrajewski wrote 1 week ago: Stieg Larsson Are you itching to read Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ N … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Christopher Hitchens, free book, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

A find

The Flâneur wrote 1 week ago: Though it can’t help but dull the edge of gentility, a little democracy, now and again, can … more →

Tags: In The News, Narrative, Internet, Lyric, Poetry, writing, cosmopolitanism

core values

manningsmith wrote 1 week ago: This week, a new business contact found me through LinkedIn. She said my personality shines through … more →

Tags: Problem-solving, Mentoring, creative problem solving, Beliefs, big picture, Core Values, Spreadsheets, Reputation

Robust Redux

bkrajewski wrote 1 week ago: In an earlier post on TFP about banning the word “robust” from a conference called Inter … more →

Tags: language, Slate, Robust, Bruce Reed, David Crystal

What Has Changed on Wall Street? -- Nothing

bkrajewski wrote 1 week ago: Andrew Sorkin has been studying the financial meltdown on Wall Street, followed by the epic financia … more →

Tags: capitalism, Journalism, Andrew Sorkin, greed, The Daily Show, Wall Street, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps

Tyner, Kathleen. "Audiences, Intertextuality, and New Media Literacy."

drewloewe wrote 1 week ago: Tyner, Kathleen. “Audiences, Intertextuality, and New Media Literacy.” International Jou … more →

Tags: 2009, New Media, Literacy, Remix

Three new courses on the books!

Kevin Mahoney wrote 1 week ago: Followers of this blog will know that we have been building toward a concentration in Composition, R … more →

Tags: Events, Teaching, amy lynch-biniek, Comp/Rhet, composition program, Courses, CRLS, kevin mahoney, linda cullum


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