I am currently enrolled in a 19th-century rhetoric course, with one other 20th-century rhetoric course completed from the University of Oregon. Although my areas of study have always been diversified (philosophy, classical voice, creative writing, second language acquisition, yoga), I finally feel I have found one that I can settle down with: rhetoric.

Through a blog entitled, Free College, I am attempting to write a sort of contemplative journal saturated with rhetoric.
Similar to the composition text-books of the 19th-century, the journal may only occasionally relate its content to rhetoricians yet the material will obviously be laden with the ideas of Blair, Aristotle, Plato, Newman, Booth, Fish, etc. The point of the blog is to provide a "free college" atmosphere for those out of college, never attended college, or those in college that want a place of "equal inquiry" rather than the competitive "sound bite" discourse that we sometimes find in our classes.

In the spirit of Samuel Phillips Newman's emphasis on the individual nature of style, this blog is a forum where any mode of expression is welcome. While Buffon states, "Style is the man himself"--I say that if we present ourselves in a tone that both confronts and actualizes the other, then the result will be a lively discourse of "imagaination" and "perspicuity" (Blair).

http://freecollege.blogspot.com/

Check it out,

Shannonwong