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Why, then, was I so concerned when asked to teach a graduate Classical
Rhetoric course? After all, in the words of the first xXx, "I live for this
shit" (Cohen, 2002). I wanted to revisit classical rhetoric in depth again. It is who
I am, no matter what I'm teaching. Classical rhetoric is at the foundation
of composition, grant writing, new media theory, English Education, Web
site design, teaching praxis, rhetocial theory, technical communication,
and everything else. I am rhetoric, and I am a teacher who lives and breathes
technological literacy. iRhetoric.
Consider these three principles of good teaching in the new media Classical Rhetoric course: