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Ph.D. Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University.
Director of the lower division writing program
Teaching and research interests include: rhetoric
of
inquiry, argument, theories
of language, composition, new media, and
online education. He has worked on large electronic text projects within
the academy and in industry, and is interested in how the resources and
knowledges produced by different communities get organized in online
environments. He has published articles on the rhetoric of electronic
commerce, and on the pragmatics of online discourse. He is co-editor
(with Miranda Mowbray) of Online
Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University (Prentice
Hall, 2001).
I am currently working on a book that examines the rhetoric
of Chomskyan and cognitive theories of language. The
Rhetoric of Contemporary Linguistics: A Rhetorical Analysis
of Chomskyan and Cognitive Linguistics focuses
on the key rhetorical imperatives that have shaped these
two areas of inquiry, and investigates the strategies
of argument that have been central to the fashioning
of grammatical theory as a distinct and relatively unified
area of inquiry. Drawing on work in the rhetoric of inquiry,
rhetorical theory, and the study of disciplinarity, the
book examines the major tropes, rhetorical strategies
and narrative forms that both characterize and enable
knowledge production within Chomskyan and cognitive linguistics.
The book considers what a more reflexive, rhetorically
self-conscious linguistics might look like, how this
might reorient certain aspects of linguistic inquiry,
and have significant implications for rhetorical studies.
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