Greetings, colleagues -- & apologies for cross posting
Some of you may be interested in my brand new "Rhetoric in Higher
Education & Society" blog. I started this weekend with a bang: about
18-20 short articles to choose from -- http://edurhetor.wordpress.com
But I'm not just writing to promote my own blog, but to encourage good
quality rhetoric-blogging in general.
And so ...
1. Please let me know of other good Rhetoric / Discourse blogs I can
selectively link to ... especially others that provide commentary
and insight into Canadian and International rhetoric, not just
American rhetoric. I would like to see how others blog on rhetoric
so as to improve my own technique & be more useful, insightful and
readable.
2. If any of you (or a graduate student or colleague) has an
interest in maintaining an active rhetoric blog with me, I am also
open to persuasion on the idea of co-authoring / co-administering
this or another blog, much like The Blogora
<http://rsa.cwrl.utexas.edu/> of the Rhetoric Society of America.
It would broaden out the rhetorical perspectives on rhetoric in
such immense realms as "higher education" and / or "society." And
it is easier to keep momentum & interest & quality dialogue going in
a blog when there is more than one author.
None of us has that much time to read blogs nowadays. But if a blog is
at least good enough to attract a few people's interest and provoke
thought, it might be useful inspiration for teaching, learning,
research, and our everyday practice of rhetoric.
Also, good quality reader-comments on a blog can help its authors to
improve its quality even further. Hopefully a little blog-dialogue will
inspire others to contribute their own material for discussion in a
public forum. Some blog entries may even develop further as drafts for
articles and book chapters in more formal publications.
--
Tania S. Smith
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Communication & Culture
University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~smit
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