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		<title>Enculturation: MacLuhan at 100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at <em>Enculturation</em> have just published a special issue on Marshall MacLuhan.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/news/enculturation-macluhan-at-100/</link>
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		<title>Vol. 2.1: A Timely Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Volume 2.1 continues our publication's trend of especially timely work. The articles of Volume 2.1 describe political and technological developments with ongoing consequences: a US public relation firm’s promotion of Gaddafi’s dictatorship; Arizona’s subjugation of immigrant bodies; epistemological production through social media.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/editorial/vol-2-1-a-timely-issue/</link>
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		<title>PR Guns for Hire: The Specter of Edward Bernays in Gadhafi’s Libya</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Nearly a century later, Bernays’s troubling defense of anti-democratic communication as a central component of democratic governance reverberates in a recent public relations campaign to 'enhance' Gadhafi's image."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-2/pr-guns-for-hire-the-specter-of-edward-bernays-in-gadhafi%e2%80%99s-libya/</link>
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		<title>Not to Shy Away: Barack Obama’s Rhetoric of Friendship</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Senator Obama was faced with a complex problem: how to explain a longstanding friendship with a suddenly infamous figure? He had to do this, moreover, within the context of the most delicate issue of his campaign: race."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-2/not-to-shy-away-barack-obama%e2%80%99s-rhetoric-of-friendship/</link>
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		<title>Sociotechnical Notemaking: Short-Form to Long-Form Writing Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA["In this article, I reframe recent public debates about emergent literacy practices by situating the movement of short-form to long-form writing work within the disciplinary milieu of Rhetoric and Composition."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-2/sociotechnical-notemaking-short-form-to-long-form-writing-practices/</link>
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		<title>Troubling Citizenship: Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and the Rhetorics of Immigration Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA["I ask what kind of citizen is invited to participate in the collective fantasy that is invoked in current immigration law. What kind of imaginary does such a fantasy produce and in what ways does it echo through public discourses?"]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-2/troubling-citizenship-arizona-senate-bill-1070-and-the-rhetorics-of-immigration-law/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Adler-Kassner and O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s Reframing Writing Assessment</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Part scholarly monograph, part handbook, part rallying cry, <em>Reframing Writing Assessment</em> is an important addition to a spate of recent books on assessment that encourage teachers to take back our professional lives."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-2/book-review-reframing-writing-assessment-to-improve-teaching-and-learning/</link>
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		<title>Course Review: Environmental Rhetoric, Ethics, and Policy &#8211; Teaching Engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Before we even got to the attendance policy, students were wrestling with an entire semester’s worth of work: they wanted to know how they could make a difference, how to get their voices heard." ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-2/environmental-rhetoric-ethics-and-policy-teaching-civic-engagement/</link>
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		<title>Welcome, Guest Editors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The <em>Present Tense</em> staff would like to welcome the guest editors for our spring 2012 special issue on medical, gender, and body rhetorics.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/news/welcome-guest-editors/</link>
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		<title>Medical Rhetoric Special Issue CFS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are recruiting submissions on medical, gender, and body rhetorics for publication in a spring 2012 special issue.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.presenttensejournal.org/news/medical-rhetorics-special-issue-cfs/</link>
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