Dr. MacLennan's
Rhetoric Hall of Fame
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Conference in beautiful Saskatoon, May 2007
Tess Laidlaw (BSc, MA, PhD in progress), "The Flu Pandemic: At a Bookstore Near You"
Julian Demkiw (BE, MA in progress), "Can "The Office" Provide Clues to Understanding Real-Life Organizations?"
Janelle Hutchinson (BSc; BE, MA in progress), "A Pseudo-event for Sale: Further Examination of the Maclean's University Rankings"
Burton Urquhart (BA, MA), "Squirm: The New Rhetorical Device? Humour and Discomfort as Enthymematic Social Satire in Borat"
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Conference in North York, ON, May 2006
2005Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Conference in London, ON, May 2005
Janelle Hutchinson (BSc; BE); "Goading, In the Spirit of Hierarchy: A Closer Look at the Maclean’s University Rankings"
Burton Urquhart (BA; MA in progress); "The Reflective Practitioner Gives Advice: Rhetorical Theory in Action"
Jeanie Wills (BA; MA; PhD in progress); "In the Beginning Was the Word: The Role of Terministic Screens in Making Advertising Sacred."
2004
Cultural Approaches to the Study of Canadian
Nationalism Conference in Nipissing University, North Bay, ON, August
2004
Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference in Winnipeg, May 2004
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Conference in Winnipeg, May 2004
U of S "Rhetoric Heads" when the sun finally came out at CSSR 2004 Back, L to R: Burton Urquhart, Peter Thorpe, Nancy Senior (Chair of Languages & Linguistics at U of S);
Front, L to R: Laura Patterson, Maria Truchan-Tataryn; Jeanie Wills; Jennifer MacLennan; Janelle Hutchinson; Becky Bennetch.
Janelle Hutchinson (BSc; BE); "Motives in Our Midst: A Rhetorical Analysis of Margaret Thaler Singer's Cults in Our Midst"
Laura Patterson (BA; MA in progress); "Scarfing Down Doughnuts: Mary Walsh's 'Connie Bloor' and the Language of Canadian Resistance"
Maria Truchan-Tartaryn (BA; MA; PhD in progress); "Leading the Breeding: A Rhetorical Analysis of Emily Murphy's 'Sterilization of the Insane'"
Peter Thorpe (BE; BEd; MSc in progress); "Constructing the Little Guy: Hollywood Appeals to the Masses"
Burton Urquhart (BA; MA in progress); "Understanding Scene in Technical Communication: Kenneth Burke's Dramatism in Reverse"
Jeanie Wills (BA; MA; PhD in progress); "A Pentadic Analysis of Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach"
NorthEast Popular Culture Association Conference in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 31-November 1, 2003
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Conference s in Halifax, May 29-31 2003
Laura Patterson (BA; MA in progress; Rhetoric, Culture, and Popular Media); "What’s Rhetoric Got to Do with It? Norman Fairclough’s Language and Power."
Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences in Toronto, May 24-31 2002
Laura Patterson (BA; MA in progress; Rhetoric, Culture, and Popular Media); "'Talking to Americans': Cultural Identification and the Scapegoating Process."
Canadian Conference on Engineering Education, held in Victoria, BC, 23 August 2001.
- Julian Demkiw (BE 1999)
- Bruce James (BE 2001)
- Jennifer Neilands (4th year ME student)
Northwest Communication Association Conference; Coeur D'Alene, ID 5-7 April.
U of S "Rhetoric Heads" take Coeur D'Alene at NWCA 2001 L-R: Geoff Stewart, Julian Demkiw, Sue Sheane (U of Alaska), Laura Patterson, Bruce James, Jennifer MacLennan, Tony Murphy (McMaster U), Megan Huston, Burton Urquhart, John Moffatt (UC Fraser Valley).
Panel
title "The Ethics of Community:
Terms of Association."
Terms of Association."
Burton Urquhart (BA; MA in progress); Panel Co-Chair and Respondent
Megan Huston (BA; MA in progress); Panel Co-Chair and Respondent
Julian Demkiw, BE; Alumni & Development Officer; "An Orphaned 'Son of Martha': Defining the Engineer"
Bruce James, Senior Undergraduate, Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering; "Liberty, Justice, and the American Way: Why Eastern Canadians Rejected the Alliance"
Laura Patterson, Senior Undergraduate, English; “Mercy Killing or Murder? The Robert Latimer Case"
Geoff Stewart, Senior Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering; "Landmines for Sale: Alliant Techsystems’s Persuasive Website (www.atk.com)"
Resume-writing workshop, co-sponsored by the D.K. Seaman Chair in Technical and Professional Communication and the Saskatoon Engineering Students Society, 27 September
Megan Huston, MA in progress, Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Burton Urquhart, MA in progress, Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Tim Stobbs, BE (Chemical Engineering, 2000), U of Saskatchewan
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric and the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (Joint Session); Edmonton, AB, 24-26 May.
Northwest Communication Association Conference; Coeur D'Alene, ID 6-8 April.
NWCA 1999, Coeur D'Alene: David Cowan; Jennifer MacLennan;
Tom McIntyre; Trish Trcka; Mark Gron
Jana Danielson, MBA Candidate and Director of Student Retention, Student Affairs and Services; University of Saskatchewan; "Creating 'Upper Year' Culture in a First-Year Classroom: A Communication Challenge"
Megan Huston, MA in progress, Rhetoric and Professional Communication, University of Saskatchewan; "Examining the Role of Authorial Voice in Written Communication: Kerouac’s On theRoad"
Trish Trcka, Senior Undergraduate, English and Rhetoric, University of Lethbridge; "News as Entertainment, Entertainment as News: Canadian and American Perspectives on Public Media"
Burton Urquhart, MA in Progress, Rhetoric and Professional Communication, University of Saskatchewan; "Developing a Student Handbook on Technical Presentations: A Preliminary Analysis of Footing"
Northwest Communication Association conference in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, April.
Burton Urquhart, "Where Do We Go from Here? Canadian Programs in Rhetoric and Communication"
Tom McIntyre, "Bridges across Disciplines: The Rhetorical Richness of Literary Metaphor"
Northwest Communication Association conference in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, April.
U of L
"Rhetoric Heads" at NWCA 1998 L to
R: Megan Huston, Burton Urquhart, Tom McIntyre, Jennifer
MacLennan, Mark Gron, Jennifer Varzari, Witek Gierulski, Jennifer
Anderson
Mark Gron, "Too Much Medium and Not Enough Message: Children's Literature on CD ROM"
Jennifer Varzari, "The Jenny Jones Show: An 'Ambush' on Ethics in Communication? A Critical Analysis of the Relationship between the Nature of Television and Ethics in Communication."
Tom McIntyre, "Adventures in Workshop Planning: The Evolution of a Group"
Burton Urquhart, "Coming Together: Building Collective Voice and Ethos in Group Presentation"
Megan Huston, "The Role of Individual Style and Voice in Group Presentation"
Jennifer Varzari, "Choosing its Own Adventure: The Role of Audience in Shaping Rhetorical Discourse"
Jennifer Anderson, "From Entertainer to Communicator: Rhetorical Balance in Group Presentation"
First Publication by a Rhetoric Student
Winner of the NorthWest Communication Association Undergraduate Paper Award
Northwest Communication Association conference in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, April (All the papers were products of senior courses in rhetoric.)
Holly Crumpton, "Persuasive Entertainment: Top Ten Best and Worst Dressed Lists"
Ruth Klinkhammer, "The Construction of Self in Computer-Mediated Discourse"
Sharlene Myers, "Crumbling Foundations: The Role of Assumptions in Deliberative Discourse"
Gwilyn Timmers, "Whales Tales: An Analysis of Greenpeace's Save the Whales Campaign"
Trish Williams, "Newsy Entertainment, Entertaining News: Form VS Content in 60 Minutes"
Megan Huston, "Learning through Teaching: Putting Theory into Practice"
Lori Leister, "About Face: A Graduate Student's Teaching Experience in the Rhetoric Classroom"
Shawn Cronin, "Instruction Inside Out: Rounding the Edges of the Rhetorical Triangle"
Jennifer Varzari, "From the Theoretical to the Practical: A Rhetoric Student's Backstage Pass"
First Publications by Three Undergraduate Rhetoric Students (All papers appeared in David Zarefsky and Jennifer MacLennan, Public Speaking: Strategies for Success, Canadian edition. Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Canada, 1977, pp 443-450).
Shawn Cronin, "Speaking in Unison:Uncovering a Self within the Collaborative Writing Experience." ; 443-445.
Devon Walker, "Best Laid Plans: Why the Book We Wrote Is Not Exactly the One We Expected." David Zarefsky and Jennifer MacLennan, Public Speaking: Strategies for Success, Canadian edition. Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Canada, 1977; 446-448.
Lori Irwin, "The Real and the Imagined: Students as Teachers in the Rhetoric Classroom." David Zarefsky and Jennifer MacLennan, Public Speaking: Strategies for Success, Canadian edition. Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Canada, 1977; 448-450.
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, St. Catharines, ON in, June 1996
Northwest Communication Association conference, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, April
Devon Walker, "Best Laid Plans: Why the Book We Wrote isn't the Book We Intended"
Shawn Cronin, "Speaking in Unison: Uncovering a Self Within the Collaborative Writing Process"
Northwest Communication Association conference, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, April
Rhetoric Heads in Coeur D'Alene, 1995.
Front: Sue Sheane, Bob Gray; Back: Jen MacLennan, Lori
Irwin, Don Bach, Ruth Klinkhammer
Lori Irwin, "The Real and the Imagined: Students as Teachers in the Rhetoric Classroom"
Ruth Klinkhammer, "Ethos: A Teacher's Most Effective Appeal"
Susan Sheane (Koshman), "Controlling the Rhetorical Situation: How Much is Too Much?"
Where are They Now?
Former
Undergraduate "Rhetoric Heads" who have pursued
Graduate Degrees in Communication and Rhetoric
To update your information or get yourself added to this list, send Jen an e-mail!
Graduate Degrees in Communication and Rhetoric
To update your information or get yourself added to this list, send Jen an e-mail!
- Donovan Conley, BA ‘97; MA University of Illinois, 1999; PhD, University of Illinois 2004. Dissertation: Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of National Expansion and Social Reform in Antebellum America. Donovan is Assistant Professor in the department of Communication Studies, University of Nevada.
- Holly Crumpton, BA '97; Holly entered the MA program in English and Rhetoric at the University of Waterloo in fall 1997.
- Robert Gray, BA '93, MA University of Lethbridge, 1998.
- Megan Huston, BA '99; MA in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, University of Saskatchewan (2002). Megan has completed her law degree at Dalhousie and is articling in Alberta. (Click here for more information on Megan's MA programme)
- Lori Irwin, BA ‘95; MA in Speech Communication (rhetoric), Colorado State University 2000. Thesis: Constructing National Character: A Cultural/Rhetorical Analysis of Canadian and American Political Discourse. Lori is now teaching at Front Range Community College in Colorado.
- Ruth Klinkhammer, BA ‘97; MA University of Calgary 1999. Ruth is now teaching at Okanagan University College in Kamloops, BC.
- Lori J. Leister,
BA '96; MA University of Lethbridge, 1998.
- Laura
Patterson, BA '01; MA in Rhetoric, Culture, and
Popular Media, University of Saskatchewan (2006). Laura is now teaching
technical communication in engineering at UBC Okanagan.
(Click here
for more information on Laura's MA programme).
- Susan D. Sheane, BA ‘95; MA University of Alaska Fairbanks 1997; Thesis: Determination and Accommodation of Gender Differences in Ethics Instruction. After teaching in Alaska for several years, Sue is completing a PhD at Carleton University in Ottawa.
- Joanne Stober, BA '95; Dip. Comm. '99; MA in Communication Studies, Concordia University, 2001. Thesis: That’s Not What I Heard: Synchronized Sound Cinema in Montreal 1926-1931. Jo entered the PhD programme at Concordia in fall 2001.
- Burton Urquhart, BA '99; MA in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, University of Saskatchewan (2006). Burton has a faculty position at the rank of Instructor in the Graham Centre for the Study of Communication in the College of Engineering at the U of Saskatchewan. (Click here for more information on Burton's programme)
- Jennifer Varzari, BA '99; MA in Communication, University of Calgary, 2001; Jenn has since completed a her LLB at University of Calgary and is practising law in Calgary.