Hi.
Welcome to my roster page. The truthitician is my "Wiki Handle" for our course. It's a space where you can get to know a little bit about me, where I can create a bit of an online persona, and where I can store drafts or notes for class. (Was that just a comma splice?)
I'm very happy to start working with all of you this term... I love teaching and, believe it or not, I especially love teaching first-year writing. Rhetoric and Composition is where it's at.
Here are three things I tend to like:
1) Truthiticians willing to live in a wikiality
2) whatever THIS is:
3) Detroit Basketball:
Here are a few more interests of mine (and some stuff you might find on my C.V.):
- All things related to Composition (college/university writing) and Rhetoric (classically defined as the production and interpretation of signs and the use of logical, ethical, and emotional appeals in deliberations about public action, rhetoric is both a theory and a practical art. On the one hand, it analyzes and models discourse practices, on the other hand, it produces and seeks to improve these practices.)
- History and Philosophy (they were my double minor)
- "Eco-comp" >> a little niche in teaching writing and rhetoric where we find those 'environmental' problems that are now being addressed in many academic fields and many more practical areas
- Figuring out what Sustainability might be...
- Conspicuous consumption and Eco-thos (I'll explain if you ask).
- Science and Technology studies (as as part of a rhetorical, philosophical history)
- Cool Books about the Economy or Capitalism
- Detroit's urban gardens
- Detroit (I love this city)
- Food (the science of food...the politics of food...the production of food...the consumption of food)