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Lessons | City of Rhetoric
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Writing and Teaching about Place. I started this blog, in part, to help students in my English 350 course, Expository Writing: Rhetorics of Place. Which I teach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. What I hoped to model for them was:. An attentiveness to one’s surroundings;. A habit of close observation, of noticing and note-taking;. A willingness to share personal experiences, memories, and stories;. A confidence that one’s response to the world will be recognized by others;. You are commenting u...
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The Right of Way | City of Rhetoric
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Writing and Teaching about Place. The Right of Way. March 1, 2014. Middot; by David Fleming. The back-to-back traffic accidents, on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4, involving pedestrians and motor vehicles on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst reminded me once again how vulnerable walkers and bicycle riders are in our automobile-obsessed culture, even in a place specifically designed to be. Http:/ www.umass.edu/visitorsctr/campusmaps. How did the University respond to the incident? On the evenings o...
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The Meadows of Northampton, Cont’d | City of Rhetoric
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Writing and Teaching about Place. The Meadows of Northampton, Cont’d. February 18, 2014. Middot; by David Fleming. A better choice, I thought, for a middle-aged, single man who would be living alone for the first time since his children were born. Now, it’s hard to call a town of 30,000 people, in a region better known for its villages and farms, urban. To me A great meadow? Two thousand acres of “rich open land” between the town center and the river? What was Wright talking about? And I had seen them!
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Publics | City of Rhetoric
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Writing and Teaching about Place. I live a local life and inhabit a small world. In my research. I try to reach as wide an audience as I can, but I know my readership is not huge. I would be thrilled for this blog to attract unexpected visitors, from far and wide. But, to be honest, I write mainly for my students, my colleagues, my neighbors, my family and friends, and myself. If I have any “publics,” it is these three:. Scholars and teachers of postsecondary composition and rhetoric;. Out of Eden Walk.
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Projects | City of Rhetoric
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Writing and Teaching about Place. The topics of City of Rhetoric. Vary widely; as a writer, I never quite know what I’m going to write about next – and when I’m writing, the posts always seem to take on a life of their own. But all of them, in one way or another, are about. About living on earth about movement, memory, habitation, preservation, and design. There are long-term projects that weave in and out of these posts:. NC, and another, shorter one about Doughton Park. There is in fact a sort of harmo...
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David Fleming | City of Rhetoric
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Writing and Teaching about Place. Author Archives: David Fleming. The Churches of Russell Wallis, Part Two. December 27, 2014. Middot; by David Fleming. For all his devotion to higher education, the road my grandfather took to the bachelor’s degree was long and winding. As I wrote in Part One of this post, he had only a ninth grade education when, in 1917, at the age of 20, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War I and spent […]. The Churches of Russell Wallis, Part One. December 18, 2014. For more...
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