Comments on: Hubris http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/07/09/hubris/ faults | sins | abuses Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:24:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bill http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/07/09/hubris/#comment-17463 Bill Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:17:02 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/07/09/hubris/#comment-17463 Avoiding reductive readings of how one might move from one of these key concepts to the next is crucial. On the other hand, can't a dissertation be a place to try out making new connections among theoretical concepts? My sense is you're connecting these intellectual antecedents to give us one particular narrative: point a to point b to point c. Not the final word. Not claims for causation. That ain't hubris...that's scholarship, no? Avoiding reductive readings of how one might move from one of these key concepts to the next is crucial. On the other hand, can’t a dissertation be a place to try out making new connections among theoretical concepts? My sense is you’re connecting these intellectual antecedents to give us one particular narrative: point a to point b to point c. Not the final word. Not claims for causation. That ain’t hubris…that’s scholarship, no?

]]> By: Wealth Bondage http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/07/09/hubris/#comment-17449 Wealth Bondage Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:40:14 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/07/09/hubris/#comment-17449 <strong>Teaching Composition for Wealth Bondage</strong> Posted by Dr. Amrit Chadwallah What does composition, or rhetoric, teach? Should it not teach how to write a good corporate memo? A speech for an immediate superior? How to reduce a complex argument to 15 Powerpoint slides? How to do a cost/benefit ana... Teaching Composition for Wealth Bondage

Posted by Dr. Amrit Chadwallah What does composition, or rhetoric, teach? Should it not teach how to write a good corporate memo? A speech for an immediate superior? How to reduce a complex argument to 15 Powerpoint slides? How to do a cost/benefit ana…

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