Comments on: Topics: Style http://wrecking.org/cbd/2007/03/28/topics-style/ Software studies, technical communication, writing studies, web accessibility, and new media. Life with my girls. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: cbd http://wrecking.org/cbd/2007/03/28/topics-style/#comment-13416 cbd Sun, 27 May 2007 21:39:32 +0000 http://wrecking.org/cbd/2007/03/28/topics-style/#comment-13416 Agreed; C&W was great this year. I'll drop you a line; I'd love to hear more about your course. Agreed; C&W was great this year. I’ll drop you a line; I’d love to hear more about your course.

]]> By: Bill FitzGerald http://wrecking.org/cbd/2007/03/28/topics-style/#comment-13272 Bill FitzGerald Wed, 23 May 2007 03:20:52 +0000 http://wrecking.org/cbd/2007/03/28/topics-style/#comment-13272 It was a pleasure to connect with you again at CW07, Bradley. As a result, I was checking out your blog and your posting on an anticipated style course for Fall 07. I taught a course on style at UMBC and used historical selections much as you expect to do. I used Lanham fairly extensively in addition to Thomas and Turner, Williams. Add to that a range of great projects by students on literary and non-literary styles and stylists. I thought about doing a course on style again here at Rutgers and I am, in a way, However, I am framing it as a course on figuratiion, mostly in verbal but also in visual contexts. So, for starters, the basics on classical figures (and their significance through the Remaissance) as well as contemporary approaches to tropes and schemes, including Lakoff and Turner, Burke, Fahnestock. It was a pleasure to connect with you again at CW07, Bradley. As a result, I was checking out your blog and your posting on an anticipated style course for Fall 07. I taught a course on style at UMBC and used historical selections much as you expect to do. I used Lanham fairly extensively in addition to Thomas and Turner, Williams. Add to that a range of great projects by students on literary and non-literary styles and stylists.

I thought about doing a course on style again here at Rutgers and I am, in a way, However, I am framing it as a course on figuratiion, mostly in verbal but also in visual contexts. So, for starters, the basics on classical figures (and their significance through the Remaissance) as well as contemporary approaches to tropes and schemes, including Lakoff and Turner, Burke, Fahnestock.

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