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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&blog=1863597&post=34&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=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 leave this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&blog=1863597&post=32&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&blog=1863597&post=29&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=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 &#8217;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&blog=1863597&post=27&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is keeping me awake tonight 1: Adam Sternbergh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, on a listserv that I currently have no good reason to subscribe to, let alone read, someone posted a link to the Stuff White People Like blog.  As a response, today someone posted a link to Adam Sternbergh&#8217;s recent critique of that blog. A link in that article led me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&blog=1863597&post=25&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being right 1, Being wrong/Other r (current tally)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Theresa said these words to me: &#8220;You&#8217;re right. I agree with you.&#8221; She seems to think she may have said these words to me before, but I&#8217;m fairly certain this was the first time. It&#8217;s not that I feel like I&#8217;m competing with her to see who&#8217;s right more often. Instead, I&#8217;m competing with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&blog=1863597&post=24&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve been thinking about lately: Universals</title>
		<link>http://leerocco.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/what-ive-been-thinking-about-lately-universals/</link>
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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 first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&blog=1863597&post=23&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=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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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. You have to do something, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&blog=1863597&post=22&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=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, the student will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leerocco.wordpress.com&blog=1863597&post=21&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Rotman and Shoshana Felman: mathematical objects and referents</title>
		<link>http://leerocco.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/brian-rotman-and-shoshana-felman-mathematical-objects-and-referents/</link>
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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&blog=1863597&post=19&subd=leerocco&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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