Category: English 540: Seminar in Linguistics
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Why the Patient Protection Act Doesn’t Protect Patients
This is really an update to my Jan. 18 post in which I talked about a paper I was planning to write on the rhetoric in recent healthcare legislation. The semester is now over, the paper is written, and I’m annoyed–but not surprised–at the findings of my paper. The paper,…
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Bringing in Linguistics
I’ve just begun Spring courses (I love this time of the semester; it’s so optimistic!) and one of my new ones is a required doctoral seminar in linguistics. Although I don’t come from the linguistics side of English, the two linguistics classes I’ve had have been really wonderful experiences. This…
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Seminar in Linguistics
I’m currently enrolled in English 540: Seminar in Linguistics and Language Study. I’ll be using this blog to keep track of some of my work for that class. I’ll use the tag “eng540″ to mark a post relating to this course. English 540 is a required doctoral seminar in which…

