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

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