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Learning Styles Survey

Thursday, April 2, 2009
By dhamilton3

Here’s the link:   http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/ Click on the link and find the free survey. »

Commentary #5 Goffman

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
By Amble

I think we are all conscious at some level of the differing roles we take on in our lives; as teachers, students, parents, children, siblings, spouses, friends. We are not only playing different roles in different situations, we play them differently depending on who we are with. The person my students would recognize is... »

5001 Proposal Is California still “the land of fruits and nuts?”

Thursday, March 12, 2009
By Keri

The Rhetoric of the Gay Debate in a Liberal State California has long been considered a liberal state on most issues.  People from other states often refer to California as “the land of fruits and nuts” and they aren’t talking about our long history of bountiful agricultural production.  No, our great state is known as... »

Feminism, rhetoric, and composition

Friday, January 30, 2009
By Kim De Vries

Recently I decided that I needed to include at least a little on women’s rhetoric in my Rhetoric survey, Engl 5001. I was surprised that there are not many more resources than there were 5-10 years ago.  I then started looking into Composition theory and found a bit more, and more importantly, much more... »

Ethereal what?

Monday, January 19, 2009
By Kim De Vries

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 shared over the internet, or ether. –get it? This blog is intended to be a... »