Professional Raconteur: The racket of Professing

raconteur \rack-on-TUR\, noun: One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes. Raconteur is from French, from raconter, "to relate, to tell, to narrate," from Old French, from re- + aconter. Higher education in all its "glory": teaching, writing, politics (when it's possible to be discreet, of course), and anything I have to profess or confess.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Do white people really love grammar this much?

I'm not sure I buy this , although I did spend some time marking such mistakes on graduate student theses this semester. Hmmm...

Friday, May 2, 2008

What will imitation get us? Playing With Identity in Classroom Performance

"For one of my class group presentations, the students created a game show. One of them was performing you being the host." The gr...

Monday, April 14, 2008

Ethnographically speaking...

I was invited to "translate" one of my articles into a Communication Currents column. Communication Currents is the National Commu...

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The Worst Arguments of 2007

Doing my usual reading of Slate.com, I came across a piece on the worst arguments from the Bush administration in 2007, which I cut and past...

Monday, December 24, 2007

Snow Job

One of the things I miss living in the West is snow. I miss the snow for the way it made me see things differently, the way it changed my pe...

Monday, April 9, 2007

In the Back Seat of Mom's LTD

I've been using Rhapsody music player lately and love it. While they don't yet have all of "my" music available, I stumble...

Monday, March 19, 2007

Paid to Talk

Getting to paid to talk isn't always a good thing. What you have to say may not interest others, and unfortunately, most people don'...

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