Professional Approaches
Read more about how I approach my work.
Selected Works
Blogging & Other Informal Writing
Posts at the University of Texas Digital Writing & Research Lab publication Blogging Pedagogy
Posts at the University of Texas Digital Writing & Research Lab publication viz.
- “The Funny Faces of Politics” [pdf version]
- “Reading Religious Monuments” [pdf version]
- “The Visual Rhetoric of Space” [pdf version]
From the Rostra posts
- “Lighting A Lamp And Cursing The Darkness”
- “The Uses and Abuses of Dyslogistic Phrasing”
- “The Courage of Pseudonymous Conviction”
Scholarly Writing
Engagement is key to my understanding of responsible rhetoric in this dissertation. Discussants reasoning in an engaged, accurate manner with each other’s positions enact a responsible persuasion. I think the most salient point of contact between rhetoric and writing and argumentation theory is Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s discussion of argument in The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation—and in particular their treatment of the idea of responsibility….
“Rhetoric, Dialectic and Derailment in Church-State Arguments” presented at the Ontario for the Study of Argumentation 2009. Full paper available at Archive of OSSA Proceedings.
Abstract: This paper will examine chronically derailed church-state separation arguments in order to explore the extent to which rhetorical and dialectical approaches can be reconciled. I will consider broader conceptions of rhetoric than those employed to date in studies of strategic manoeuvring. While rhetorical appeals, such as claims of persecution, can terminally polarize church-state arguments, they may also serve as means for recovering from dialectical derailment.
From the Rostra 