I was reminded yesterday of a fantastic concept that I learned years ago from Tharon Howard from his book Design to Thrive: Building Online Communities that Last. The concept is simple, easy to implement, and you’ll feel all the better. Taken
With this fantastic life-changing blog, I thought it was about time that I covered the absolute best rhetorical device that you will undoubtedly find to turn your world upside down. Yup, I’m covering hyperbole. Truth of the matter, hyperbole is
Have you… ever found..that William Shatner’s Capt. Kirk, talked in a way…that made you both, intrigued, and frustrated? Yeah, there’s a reason for that: aposiopesis, the intentional breaking off of a sentence. While Shatner was using an acting technique involving
A more-than-common everyday rhetorical device is the use of a good ol’ metonyms. They can be used as an ‘othering’ tool, to shorten a reference, or be used sarcastically ad reductio a topic into a more casual light. It’s often
Anyone can make a chart. There’s enough how-to’s on the internet to twist data in hundreds of useless shapes that will depict data however you see fit. Here is an example of a beautifully made chart from Charles Joseph Minard
I’ve only been with LexBlog for 6 months, but in that time I’ve heard story after story of how the company has changed and grown over the years. My first month at LexBlog was the most stressful start to a
In an effort to create something readable and enjoyable, I’ve thought through everything I wanted in this blog. I tried writing to “the audience”, a group of scholars that aim their sights on solving the worlds biggest issues, but that
I realized after writing this post that there is an extremely long list of solutions to pseudotransactionality. The issue raised in pedagogy and continued in the everyday workplace is one that plagues writing. So this post is just an intro
I wanted to write my first real post about one of my favorite concepts: pseudotransactional writing. Originally introduced to the concept from Spinuzzi’s 2009 article Pseudotransactionality, Activity Theory, and Professional Writing Instruction, I attempted to find an open source copy,
I wanted to start this blog off right. Which is to say, I want this blog to start. I’ve read through now thousands of blogs in the months of starting my job at LexBlog and have seen dozens of “typical”
