RhetoricVille

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 will leave the throat-clearing posts in this blog. After all, they will in time be buried. Besides, a blog is not an essay, is it? And why not show my process?

As for my focus in this blog, what can it be but writing and rhetoric, and the teaching of the same? The blog’s title demands it. So shall it be. When my life sneaks in, it will be my professional life. Mostly.