Arkie
Here are a few photos of our baby Arkie, she's 8 mths old now so she is almost a cat. Most of you will no doubt be estatic to see photos of Nobby (her nickname), and to those of you who arn't and think I have gone a bit cat crazy (I know who you are Rebecca Scott) bad luck!.
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Hey how's this for an idea for this new LJ thing we have to set up for first years.
I really want to develop some dialectical space across the journal so students can develop a healthy sense of debate, rhetoric and critical literary skills we can fire back at each other. What if we pose a series of research topics to our students, like for example “Go and find the following rhetorical terms: Inversion, parallelism, repetition, propositioning clauses, tricolon, as well as arguing against the fact, begging the question, ad homonym, et cetera”
“Now I want you to go out and pick a debate with a student in another group.”
Do you think it would work?
No I dont think it would work, not that its not a good idea just that I dont think people have the time and most probably not the interest. These are the sorts of things you could set up yourself as a teacher/lecturer and make it assessable so it would be compulsory.
As for my rabbit/kangaroo/bunny/cat creature. Since the user pic photos where she'd been unwell with allergies (yes the cat we got because she would be non-allergy causeing to us gets allergies itself- I see the irony)she has been desexed and put on some weight.
I was thinking about getting a few of us together one day over the hol's and going through all the english language elements like your eg:"rhetorical terms: Inversion, parallelism, repetition, propositioning clauses, tricolon, as well as arguing against the fact, begging the question, ad homonym,etc". I think Marc would be interested, Matt Humphery, maybe Marie, Gemma?
What do you think?
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What makes you think I’m going to be a lecturer?
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