William Schraufnagel

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...

From the end of my dissertation, Kenneth Burke's Adolescence, 1915-1920: An Archival Study of Influence: At the end of 1918, after a few...

As we finish the academic year 2015-2016 at the Center for Writing and Communication (CWC) at the University of Memphis, I wanted to...