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		<title>Bonds and Bond Insurance (basics I should understand, I think)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bond-insurance is just a promise. When you buy it, you buy a promise. The bond is a promise in a sense, but it can also be thought of, like stock, as a part of the company’s stuff. That’s what you buy, a pound of steel, an employee’s MBA knowledge….  But insurance is a promise. Promises [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=34&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I read something! Bruce Hunt on the two sides of math</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the reviewer response to my manuscript on Ideas of Math in Rhetoric was to consult this: Hunt, B. J. &#8216;Rigorous discipline : Oliver Heaviside versus the mathematicians&#8217;. In Dear, Peter (ed.), The literary structure of scientific argument : historical studies (Philadelphia (PA), 1991), 72-95. It was a pretty ugly blunder for me to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=32&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rhet/math and the Financial Crisis: General statements and a first crack at David Li</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to gain a rhetorical understanding of the financial crisis? Is it possible that what went wrong, or more realistically, one part of what went wrong was a rhetorical error, a failure of discourse?  Was there a problem in the way persuasion operated? We look at things from a rhetorical perspective in order [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=29&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lines of flight and what&#8217;s the other thing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want words to cary me away. Or rather, that &#8216;s what I think they&#8217;re for, what they do. How they do. The numbers can peg me in place. Peg me? REally? Is that inappropriate? because that&#8217;s what I think numbers do. They take a step, or make a step. They stand, freeze, lock. Words [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=27&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve been thinking about lately: Universals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I posted here. During that time, somethings have come and gone. Some of these things came  from very different places but wanted to be together. They float around the universal. Last week, Theresa and I went to Miami for the art fairs (Basel, Scope, Pulse, Aqua, Nada, etc.). Our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=23&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>unmanlyfesto for teaching writing next time, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make it a practicum. Write and workshop in class more often. Work on several different &#8220;types&#8221; of writing simultaneously. Make students write short things more often. Have more one-on-one conferences with me. Make workshops/peer reviews shorter and involve less commitment. Call it a &#8220;creative thinking&#8221; course, but say that you can&#8217;t create just by thinking. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=22&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>unmanlyfesto for teaching in the future, part 1</title>
		<link>http://leerocco.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/unmanlyfesto-for-teaching-in-the-future-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next time I teach freshman writing, I will: Use the Learning Record; Add a description of &#8220;independence&#8221; to the description of the dimension of learning called &#8220;confidence and independence&#8221;; Grade individual assignments on A-F scale but clearly indicate to the students that I will NOT tally these grades to determine their final grades. Instead, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=21&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Rotman and Shoshana Felman: mathematical objects and referents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it may surprise most people who know me, I have actually read all of Brian Rotman&#8217;s book. Nevertheless, for several posts now, I have been dwelling in the first chapter, &#8220;Toward a Semiotics of Mathematics.&#8221; I just haven&#8217;t gotten through all I want to get through yet. In particular, I haven&#8217;t gotten to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=19&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naming things 2: Loving Words and Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. I&#8217;m about to change the name of the blog again. As I do so, I am letting go of the current name, Loving Words and Numbers: Forget(s) Eats Shoots and Leaves. I don&#8217;t know what exactly the book (is that what it was) Eats Shoots and Leaves was about, but I have the general [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=18&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rrrrrright&#8230;. the rrrrrreferent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I had lost my notes on Shoshana Felman&#8217;s book, The Literary Speech Act: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages, but luckily I found them in a folder full of files that I produced in the pursuit of a project that never came to pass, a project on Plato, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1863597&amp;post=17&amp;subd=leerocco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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