John Chandlee Turnbull

M.A. TESOL | Instructor, University of Nebraska Omaha

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Self-Reflection

Rhetorical occasions: Arguing for new trolleys

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021John Turnbull Leave a comment

Only now, many years after the event, 20 years after my father’s death, do I realize that I was trying to make some connection in my “trolley discourse” to my dad, who at the time, in Washington, was dying from cancer.

Journalistic decay, epistemological certainty

March 7, 2021March 8, 2021John Turnbull Leave a comment

My constructionist epistemology began to be shaped in the journalistic mode when I was 16 years old and started interviewing people and publishing their stories.

Personal literacy testimonio

February 16, 2021February 21, 2021John Turnbull Leave a comment

A testimonio prepared for BBL 7123, "Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy," University of Texas at San Antonio

15 sites of spiritual communion

January 3, 2021January 4, 2021John Turnbull Leave a comment

Assembled over six decades and during trips or periods of residence when seeking spiritual refuge was not the principal aim, these 15 tidbits are offered in gratitude to life as it is.

Headliner: My ten

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020John Turnbull Leave a comment

Stealing from the New York Times Sunday feature, an embarrassingly specific guide to pandemic-era pursuits and rabbit holes.

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  • Interested in partnering to help me teach in Lithuania? November 22, 2023
  • Rhetorical occasions: Arguing for new trolleys June 27, 2021
  • Journalistic decay, epistemological certainty March 7, 2021
  • Personal literacy testimonio February 16, 2021
  • 15 sites of spiritual communion January 3, 2021

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