RhetoricVille

I returned yesterday from the 4Cs (Conference on College Composition and Communication) in Chicago. It’s the fourth 4Cs I’ve attended in Chicago — all at the Palmer House. I’ve been to two or three other conferences in Chicago as well, always in the past traveling by car. This time we went by train. You can […]

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This blog hasn’t had a clear focus. Or even an unclear focus. That’s because I’ve been playing around, learning the software. In an essay draft, I would call it “throat-clearing,” the writing you do to get to your point. I generally cut the throat-clearing paragraphs, and advise my students to do so, but I […]

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