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Photograph of Dr. Michael Duncan Michael G. Duncan
Office: N-1051
Phone: (713) 226-5576
Email: duncanm@uhd.edu

Educational Background: Ph.D., Composition Studies, University of Memphis, 2009
M.A., Professional Writing, University of Memphis, 2005
B.A., Media Arts, University of Arizona, 1998

Teaching and Research Interests: Rhetorical theory & criticism, style, ethics, history of rhetoric, editing, grammar, professional writing genres, biblical studies, early Christian rhetoric


Professional Experience Outside of Academia:
Copyediting, Index editing, technical writing, web design


Publications:

Duncan, Mike. “The Research Paper as Stylistic Exercise.” Forthcoming in The Centrality of Style (tentative title), Ed. Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian. Parlor Press, 2012.


Duncan, Mike. "The Curious Silence of the Dog and Paul of Tarsus: Revisiting the Argument from Silence." Informal Logic 34.1 (2012): 83-97.


Duncan, Mike. "Polemical Ambiguity and the Composite Audience: Bush's September 20, 2001 speech to Congress and the Epistle of 1 John." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 41.5 (2011): 455-471.


Duncan, Mike. “Questioning the Auditory Sublime: A Multisensory-Organic Approach to Prose Rhythm.” JAC (Journal of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture) 31.3-4 (2011): 579-608.


Duncan, Mike. “Whatever Became of the Paragraph?” College English 69.5 (2007): 470-495.


Rpt. in Style in Composition and Rhetoric: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Paul Butler. Bedford St. Martin’s: Boston, 2009.


McCarthy, Phillip, and Adam Renner, Michael Duncan, Nicholas Duran, Erin Lightman, & Danielle McNamara. “Identifying Topic Sentencehood.” Behavioral Research Methods 40.3 (2008): 647-664.



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