Author Archive for Kim De Vries

I've been teaching rhetoric and writing for about 15 years. My classes generally include undergraduate composition and graduate classes in rhetoric and/or teaching composition. I'm interested in teaching courses that explore rhetoric and issues of identity: gender, race/ethnicity, class, especially online. I also teach non-western rhetoric and am developing several courses in digital rhetoric and new media; I feel it is especially important to teach graduate students, future teachers, about these topics. My research interests include transnational literacies, comparative (and contrastive) rhetoric, new/digital media, online communities, and identity studies. Most recently I've been studying the institutionalization of new media in the Netherlands, particularly the impact of gender. If you visit my research blog and look at all the posts tagged book project, you should get a pretty clear picture.

Rhetorical Devices

Yes, I am a rhetoric geek.  I have a favorite rhetorical device, and it is the enthymeme.  You can find out about it and many others here, at this handy list of rhetorical devices.  Maybe you’ll find a favorite of…

Writing Guide

A Brief Guide to Writing Essays Note: The following guide has been borrowed from the Piet Zwart Institute, Media Design handbook as authored by Dr. Florian Cramer, Director of the Media Design MA, and then adapted to suit this class.…

Inaugural Rhetoric

Political rhetoric is one of the oldest kinds around, and presidential rhetoric has received plenty of attention itself, but semantic analysis tools are adding some new possibilities for how we study and visualize this material.  Within minutes of President Obama’s…

Ethereal what?

You may well ask.  I argue in a number of places that things, like archives and communities, can be ethereal, that is existing only or mainly in the connections between people and groups.  Social connections and also links or data…