Preterition

Actually, the full title for this post should be, “Bauerlein Flaps His Arms and Makes Angry Honking Noises.” As Clancy points out, Emory professor Mark Bauerlein – in a recent post at The Valve – has taken it upon himself to say unkind things all of us who were in Chicago for the past few days.

So: upon what scholarship in rhetoric and composition, Professor Bauerlein, are you basing your critique? Or – Professor Bauerlein – have you even read any of that scholarship?

Or are you just flapping your arms and making angry honking noises?