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Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, United States

Speaking with: A conversation with Prof. Josh Compton. Invited by Laurie McMillin, Professor and Chair, Rhetoric and Composition, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA. March 11, 2015.

Remembering Bob Derryberry, five years later

The calendar doesn’t lie, I have heard it said, and yet, I’m pretty sure that it stretches the truth. Josh Compton Compton, J. (2015). Remembering Bob Derryberry, five…

Keynote: Basic Communication Course Conference, Eastern Communication Association in Pittsburgh, PA, United States

I can think of no dictionary more dynamic, more accurate, more inspiring, more critical to our discipline than the dictionary that emerges through our talk with others. This…

Oh, the places legal rhetoric can go: Prosecuting and defending characters of Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew and the Oobleck

Bartholomew and the Oobleck is also a story teeming with crimes and torts — fraud, negligence, trespass, battery, even treason.   Josh Compton & Paul Klaas The primary goal of…

Introduction to The Forensic special issue: Forensics and the Net Generation

The phrase is a contagion. We add our own versions, and soon, nostalgia is not only contagious, but also, competitive. Josh Compton Compton, J. (2012). Introduction to The…

Imagining a writing and rhetoric program based on principles of knowledge ‘transfer’

And if these challenges cross campuses and disciplines, programs and departments, program philosophies and research agendas—then that’s all the more reason to take them on. Stephanie Boone, Sara…

Chapter: Frustration vaccination? Inoculation theory and digital learning

Digital learning can have adverse side effects, as digital learning processes can reinforce potentially unhealthy learning practices. Fortunately, the medical analogy allows us to consider a remedy: inoculation….

Remembering Bob Derryberry

There will be days when a crisp dress shirt and a neat necktie reflect some of my confidence, at least a veneer of polish. But more often than…

Speaking of speech with the disciplines

When we adopt a collaborative conceptualization of speech across the disciplines, it is in the asking that we are answering. Josh Compton https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474022209359053 As Lecturer of Speech in…

Viewing ghostwriting ethics through metaphors

Perhaps this comparison—ghostwriter‐as‐you—will yield some of the most interesting (or at least personal) classroom discussions about the ethics of ghostwriting. Josh Compton Speechwriting is packed with ethical dimensions,…