#rhet comp

[jane-ways]

Tfw your advisor buys you a huge beer, lets you drink it on an empty stomach, and then introduces you to some of the most famous people in your field

One of them helped found your discipline, got wine drunk, and talked exclusively about septic tanks

And one of them (who wrote a massively influential paper using Star Trek as an example) asked your opinion on lots of Star Trek things and then gave you his card

[sikentender]

I know there are a few rhet/comp peeps who follow this blog…if you have any advice/info/tea on your university/program I would love to hear about it!! im beginning the phd program search in earnest now and would love any guidance you have!!!

[readerwriterculture]

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[continuums]

“I would argue that our colleges, despite inadequacies of the modernist curriculum, are much better equipped to prepare workers for the new job market than they are to prepare citizens for the quotidian cultural conditions of our new economy. In other words, our students are more likely to acquire the abilities and dispositions that will enable them to become successful workers than the abilities and dispositions to make critical sense of this age of image and spectacle, to understand their daily experience in postmodern culture."

James Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies

[antique-ears]

How did this even happen?!

Last semester as a grad student and I don't even have to write any real papers! So many projects! So much real world application! All the excites! Wait I'm an English major. Seriously, how did this happen?!

[theladyprivateerhasmoved-blog]

Rhet Comp

she's back she's

in my pedagogy class            talking

about the difference between

writing to learn       //       learning to write

like she fucking

        invented

                that shit

this same

woman who just about

wet herself 

when she said she never asks students

if they have any questions

             //but//     

"what questions do you have"

i guess the question is

do you live to write

or write

to live