The Argument Clinic sketch never fails to make my FYC students laugh . . . and groan . . . and perhaps learn something about argument.
This short YouTube clip is good, but the whole sketch is even better.
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- One Stayed at Welcome
- The Shakespeare Thefts
- Moving Pictures
- The Cruel Ever After
- The Mirror and the Mask
- The Stately Home Murder
- Rage (a young adult novel)
- Hunting the Witch
- In Defense of Food
- Wicked
- And the Greeks
- When the Killing's Done
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Lives of the Monster Dogs
- Reading Drama by David Scanlan
- Zeitoun
- The House of Mirth
- Summer by Edith Wharton
- The New Frugality
- Rumi: The Book of Love
- Will in the World
- Incantations
- The Awakening
- Professing Literature: An Institutional History
- The Good Soldiers
- Night Vision
- Faint Praise
- The Black Path
- Sweet Poison
- The Spirit and the Flesh
- Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him
- American Salvage
- Transparent
- Stoner
- Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
- A Sand County Almanac
- Everything is Illuminated
- The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
- Considering Literacy (textbook)
- The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
- Rubyfruit Jungle
- The Plague of Doves
- A Fragile Union
- The Book Thief
- Virginia Woolf: A Biography
- Kristin Lavransdatter
- Sexing the Body (textbook)
- American Queer (textbook)
- John Dewey's Experience and Education
- Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture
- Strange Fruit
- They Say, I Say (textbook)
- Virtual Peer Review
- Four Souls
- Tipping the Velvet
- Out Stealing Horses
- A Room of One's Own
- Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English (3rd ed.) (textbook)
- Jane Eyre
- Frankenstein
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Lu Chi's Wen Fu: The Art of Writing
- Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement
- Embroideries
- The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- Love
- Stay
- T is for Trespass
- Cradle to Cradle
- Paradise
- Jazz
- Tar Baby
- Native Son
- The Great Gatsby
- A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
- Field Notes From a Catastrophe
- Henry V
- Plato's "Gorgias"
- Salt: A World History
- The Painted Drum
- The Heath Anthology of American Literature (textbook)
- Moon and Sixpence
- Flight
- Origin
- The American Heritage College Dictionary
- The Rhetorical Tradition, second edition
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories to Stay Awake By
- We Know Where You Live: A Maggie Garrett Mystery
- Gentlemen, I Address You Privately
- The Hangdog Hustle
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present
- The Story and Its Writer (textbook)
- Good Reasons (textbook)
- Scenes of Writing (textbook)
- The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Textbook)
- Queer Cultures (textbook)
- Persepolis
- My Name is Red
- The Atlantic
- The Inheritance of Loss
- The New Yorker
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Ignorance, appropriation, and exoticization9 years ago
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Century and MnSCU Blogs
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- Humor: StrongBad
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- Online Etymology Dictionary
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- Rhetoric and Composition: a wikibook
- Steven Krause's "The Process of Research Writing"
- WriteBadlyWell
- WritingSpaces
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Blogs re. higher ed (or mostly)
- A Gentleman's C
- Bardiac
- bleckblog
- Centuryon
- Community College English
- Community College Librarian
- Confessions of a Community College Dean
- Digital Digs
- Info-Fetishist
- Inside Higher Ed
- Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
- Programmatic Perspectives
- Prone to Laughter
- Seeking Academia
- stevendkrause.com
- Teachable Moment
- Teaching Carnival in the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Teaching Carnival, the blog
- The Active Academic
- The Month of June
- The Online Instructor
- The Rebel Letter
- The Teaching Professor Blog
- University Diaries
Research and scholarship that interests me
- a wiki re. technology and pedagogy
- Across the Disciplines - journal of writing across the curriculum
- Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy
- Central Works in Technical Communication
- Community Literacy Journal
- Critical Reflections by Saul Carliner
- Digital Pedagogy Weblog
- GLBT Historical Society
- Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy
- Kairosnews
- MERLOT Pedagogy
- Oxford University Press blog
- Radical Transparency
- Talking Philosophy
- Textual Coordination
- The Paulo and Nita Freire Project for Critical Pedagogy
- Trans-Academics
- WID Studio
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Websites of Interest (Varied Topics!)
- Bloomington (the amazing cheryl ball's blog)
- Complete Your Dissertation
- Conference on College Composition and Communication
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- Global Girlfriend
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- Language Scraps
- LegalWriting.Net
- National Women's Studies Association
- NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Blog
- Newman's "The Idea of A University, 1854"
- Philosophy Factory
- Poem of the Week
1 comment:
I've loved that one for a long time!
I wish there were money in argument clinics, Hubby and I could open one :).
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