William Schraufnagel

Talib Kweli is my favorite rapper -- I think he is unlikely to be replaced, no matter how many young talented people come along. My...

Billy Schraufnagel English Lit, p.10 November 11, 1997 If you want to accomplish your delight, Find your own way to grope along in dark...

Kenneth Burke writes that a strategy is a response to a situation. And a situation is a shorthand-term for a structure of motives. By...

Love as the Redemption of Suffering You stand in a clearing whose cost you know in tendon and bone. - Wendell Berry, “Clearing” In the...

An intrepid student recently asked me, "I pose a request: If you can reduce rhetorics most relevant books to a list of ~5-10, I'd be...

For so many centuries, as the Roman Empire, rhetorical education prevailed for the most part in a continuum from Quintilian until the...

After two years as Visiting Assistant Professor at NIU, my time as a Huskie has come to an end. It was my first job after earning my PhD...

I just finished the 2017-18 academic year teaching Introduction to Communication Studies (COMS 252) at Northern Illinois University, a...

Recently a student interviewed me for a class project. The 19-question interview covers many aspects of teaching, including goals for the...

I have now finished my Ph.D. and my first year as an Adjunct Professor. Here's a report from the field. I started graduate school in 2006...