Posts Tagged ‘random’
Vague Readymade Phrases
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 9, 2011
When I’m trying to make sense, trying to connect my ideas to each other, I invariably gravitate toward two lame phrases: speaks to and points to. As in, “The concept of customization speaks to rhetorical awareness, too (like in customizing one’s resume for a specific potential employer).” Taken straight from my notes. These phrases are [...]
Current Favorite Book Title
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 11, 2010
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, Collected from Every Source, and Intended to Supersede the Use of All Other English Books of Reference (1796-1806)
Word Game
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 15, 2010
My trips between Pittsburgh and New Jersey last 6 1/2 to 7 hours. I’m always alone, except for when I bring my cat. She cries. I get really bored, staring at Route 80 for like 5 of those hours. I pass trucks. I listen to Radiohead and Girl Talk, on repeat. After every trip, I [...]
That Word
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 5, 2010
I distinctly remember writing a short paper during a freshman-year English class in college and failing to find the one word I really needed to describe the phenomenon I was trying to explain. It’s like it was always on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn’t articulate it. I thought in reading many [...]
Random Poem
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 1, 2010
An ode to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica — I just have to post it. Pondrous and square, lo! twenty volumes lie, In merit first themselves a library; All in their various arts to them refer, The poet, painter, and philosopher; They to the subtle statesman lend their aid, Or plain mechanic at [...]
CFP
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 18, 2009
A cool call for papers dealing with ephemeral texts — their value and how to work with them (especially given recent technological advancements in the preservation and dissemination of texts) — is located here. (Why doesn’t it include rhetoric and composition as one of the many “cfp categories” into which it’s placed?)
My Scraps
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