Mar 29
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I wrote Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue as a spin-off of the Communicating on Local Issues lesson published yesterday. We needed a lesson that worked through some of the ideas that yesterday’s lesson was based on. Basically this lesson does some of the audience analysis that would be necessary for students to understand before writing letters.
In the lesson, students explore the rhetorical concept of audience and purpose by focusing on the evolution-creationism debate raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial (which will tie to a July calendar entry). Students analyze the audience and purpose of at least one resource on the debate and then consider how audience and purpose might shape other communication on the issue.
Mar 29
tengrrlUncategorized
Easy DIY online database – Lifehacker—one day I’ll join the present and get a database set up, but there’s no sign when or where. This might help.
Mar 29
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10 rules to manage your boss—Not quite sure why Lifehacker didn’t share this piece from the August Money till March, but here it is nonetheless. Given the shakeup at work this week, we can all use some tips :)
Mar 29
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And today we begin hell. A “life coach” is coming in to help our team be more, well, I don’t know what. These psychosocial analytical things make me sick, and by that, I mean physically sick. I do not want analyzed. I do not want my psychological tendencies probed. I would rather go to the dentist. Because I am insane, the result of the related stress and anxiety of this nonsense makes me physically sick with varying gastrointestinal nonsense. Now, of course, I am procrastinating. The longer I can put off going to work, the longer I may be able to ignore the hell.
