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    • The Strange Conclusions of HBO’s Watchmen October 5, 2020
    • Anti-Racist Resources June 1, 2020
    • It may not be a plot hole, but that doesn’t mean it makes sense May 13, 2020
    • Memo to me: a quote from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera August 28, 2019
    • Shippey’s J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century September 10, 2015
    • McAllister’s Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture August 27, 2015
    • Feldon and Kafai’s “Mixed Methods for Mixed Reality: Understanding Users’ Avatar Activities in Virtual Worlds” July 23, 2015
    • Mendlesohn’s Rhetorics of Fantasy July 8, 2015
    • Le Guin’s Cheek by Jowl July 6, 2015
    • Goldberg’s WRITING DOWN THE BONES: FREEING THE WRITER WITHIN June 17, 2015
    • Robert Crossley’s “Education and Fantasy” June 16, 2015
    • Verlyn Flieger’s SPLINTERED LIGHT: LOGOS AND LANGUAGE IN TOLKIEN’S WORLD June 9, 2015
    • Peter Elbow’s WRITING WITH POWER: TECHNIQUES FOR MASTERING THE WRITING PROCESS April 10, 2015
    • Dennett’s INTUITION PUMPS AND OTHER TOOLS FOR THINKING February 27, 2015
    • Covino’s MAGIC, RHETORIC, AND LITERACY: AN ECCENTRIC HISTORY OF THE COMPOSING IMAGINATION February 19, 2015
    • Campbell’s THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES February 12, 2015
    • Burke’s COUNTER-STATEMENT February 10, 2015
    • Booth’s THE RHETORIC OF FICTION January 15, 2015
    • Villanueva’s “Considerations for American Freireistas” December 18, 2014
    • Young’s ‘Nah, We Straight’: An Argument against Code Switching” December 5, 2014
    • Royster’s “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own” November 25, 2014
    • Rose’s “The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University” November 24, 2014
    • Ritchie and Boardman’s, “Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption” November 22, 2014
    • Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone” November 21, 2014
    • Matsuda’s “The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in U.S. College Composition” November 21, 2014
    • Lunsford and Ede’s “On Distinctions Between Classical and Modern Rhetoric” November 19, 2014
    • LeFevre’s “Invention as a Social Act” November 17, 2014
    • Gibson, Marinara, and Meem’s “Bi, Butch, and Bar Dyke: Pedagogical Performances of Class, Gender, and Sexuality” November 7, 2014
    • Flower’s “Cognition, Context, and Theory Building” November 1, 2014
    • Ellsworth’s “Why Doesn’t This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy” October 29, 2014
    • CCCC’s “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” October 29, 2014
    • Berlin’s “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories” October 27, 2014
    • Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University” October 23, 2014
    • Overview: Baca’s “Rethinking Composition, Five Hundred Years Later” October 22, 2014
    • Vygotsky’s THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE October 17, 2014
    • Rose’s LIVES ON THE BOUNDARY: A MOVING ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICA’S EDUCATIONALLY UNDERPREPARED October 10, 2014
    • Quintilian’s INSTITUTIO ORATORIA October 6, 2014
    • Plato’s PHAEDRUS and TIMAEUS October 4, 2014
    • Hurley, Dennett, and Adams’ INSIDE JOKES: USING HUMOR TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THE MIND October 3, 2014
    • Huizinga’s HOMO LUDENS: A STUDY OF THE PLAY-ELEMENT IN CULTURE October 1, 2014
    • Johnson’s A RHETORIC OF PLEASURE: PROSE STYLE & TODAY’S COMPOSITION CLASSROOM September 29, 2014
    • Koster’s A THEORY OF FUN FOR GAME DESIGN September 27, 2014
    • Hooks’ TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS: EDUCATION AS THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM September 26, 2014
    • General Notes: Freud’s WOLFMAN, Gardner’s FRAMING MINDS, and Covino’s THE ART OF WONDERING September 24, 2014
    • Gardner’s CREATING MINDS: AN ANATOMY OF CREATIVITY AS SEEN THROUGH THE LIVES OF FREUD, EINSTEIN, PICASSO, STRAVINSKY, ELIOT, GRAHAM, AND GANDHI September 19, 2014
    • Egan’s THE EDUCATED MIND: HOW COGNITIVE TOOLS SHAPE OUR UNDERSTANDING September 16, 2014
    • Freire’s PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED September 12, 2014
    • Dewey’s EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION September 10, 2014
    • Cicero’s DE ORATORE September 3, 2014
    • Aristotle’s RHETORIC September 1, 2014

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