Teaching critical theory last night, I was pleasantly surprised by a passage in Richard Lanham's 1983 Analyzing Prose, excerpted in Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan's anthology Literary Theory as "Tacit Persuasion Patterns." Somehow it jumped out in a new way this term, and it sparked an interesting discussion of how student blogs can work to …
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