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Sarah E. Polo
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Writing professor and WPA at a women's college. Parent, learner, and general overthinker. #TeamRhetoric
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thank you for coming!
April 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Also, I appreciate hearing others refer to the text it generates as average. It averages the text it was trained on. Personally, I aim for better than average when I write. #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Thank you for providing these links! Your posts really help me come back to things later! #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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She talks about the haptic habit--muscle memory becoming ambient rhetoric--of doomscrolling, as explored in this article: enculturation.net/sneaky_rheto...
(Sano-Franchini #4C25)
Sneaky Rhetorics, Habitual Media, and the Affective Politics of Lurking on Facebook | enculturation
Maggie Fernandes, Virginia Tech Matthew Homer, Virginia Tech Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University (Published March 24, 2022) Over at least the last decade, both academic scholarship and p...
enculturation.net
April 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM