I’m scheduled to defend my dissertation on April 24, 2015, at 10:00a.m., Rm. 125, Nolte Center, 315 Pillsbury Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. The event is open to the public; the public portion of the defense will not last more than an hour. Here is the abstract for the diss. If you are really curious and plan… Continue reading Dissertation defense scheduled April 24
This is a presentation I’m giving today as a job talk at a university. It summarizes a part of my dissertation results and puts them in the context of my proposed “cognitive pragmatic rhetorical” (CPR) theory. It provides only a very preliminary overview of CPR theory; you’ll have to wait until that part of the… Continue reading Gender/Genre (job talk presentation)
Embedded on this post are PDFs of the slides and handout from the presentation that Laura Pigozzi and I are giving today at the Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, BC: Session #/Title: 613. Crossroads and Technical Communication: Second-Language Instruction, Habit, and Sustainability Saturday, 10 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 114, VCC West. Program arranged by the Association… Continue reading MLA preso/Technical communication and second language writing intersect: What students are thinking at the crossroads
Here is my research agenda, updated as of today.
This is a job talk delivered today at a law school. The slides appear below. Here, in summary, is the substance of my talk: The title of my talk is “Case-based Reasoning: Theory, pedagogy, and practice”. This presentation relates to a project I am pursuing to build on my dissertation and to extend work I’ve… Continue reading Case-based reasoning: Theory, pedagogy, and practice
Here are my slides for October 29’s presentation! -Brian
Here are the slides from my talk at the 8th quadrennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation on Thursday, July 3. I figured I’d provide them here for folks interested in the subject. They’ll go by quickly in my talk, as I’m doing them in under 20 mins. Here are the excerpts of the memoranda and court decision… Continue reading “Irreparable Harm” and legal arguments by analogy and example
This is my colleague Chris Cocchiarella’s summary of the seventh chapter of Wilson and Sperber’s (2012) Meaning and Relevance. We previously posted Chris’s summary of the book’s preface, an intro to some of the terms and concepts of Relevance Theory, and a his summary of the introductory Chapter 1. All the other chapters before the present one have also… Continue reading M&R Ch 7: Linguistic form and relevance
There’s a bit of a brouhaha going on among some legal scholars about whether citations in legal briefs should be in-line or in footnotes. Legal writing guru par excellence Bryan Garner argues in a recent ABA column that they should be in footnotes. Rich Phillips, among others, argues against this view. It’s an old debate.… Continue reading Solve legal citation problems with a different design
These are the slides for my talk at the Writing Research Across Borders III conference in Paris on Thursday, February 20. If you have questions, please direct them to me via email (“Larson” on the domain “rhetoricked.com”). I figured I’d provide them here for folks interested in the subject. They’ll go by quickly in my talk,… Continue reading Gender Differences in Disciplinary Writing