Thursday, July 7, 2011

Introductions: T. Fishman

Hello, everyone.

I'm Dr. Fishman, your instructor. My PhD is in rhetoric and composition, so I teach both how to write and how to be persuasive. (You might think that rhetoric is a bad thing, because it has gotten a bad reputation, but Aristotle wrote a book about it; it's actually very important, and necessary to just about every other thing that people do.)

I might be the only English teacher you'll ever have who has driven in a presidential motorcade (3x), visited the West Bank in Israel, ridden camels, or stayed in a Budhist temple in Japan. I enjoy teaching this class, especially online, and I'm looking forward to meeting you.

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