For now, as the title of this blog trumpets, the title of the manuscript that I'm working on is Rhetworks: An Introduction to the Study of Discursive Networks. I'm not totally sold on this name, however. For one thing, it sounds like Scooby Doo saying the word 'networks': "Rhetworks, Raggy!"

For another, though, I did get kind of used to the phrase "Network(ed) Rhetorics" while I was teaching a graduate course of that name. Rather than doing the explicative subtitle then, I'm thinking instead about Network(ed) Rhetorics: X, Y, Z, with at least one of the variables being "scale." Part of the trick here is that I'm not sure what the others are yet.

But there is a certain amount of voodoo involved in having at least a tentative title sketched out. For whatever reason, it helps me set the scope and tone of my project in ways that prove important both for my focus and my motivation.

For all I know, I'll be posting each month with a revised title, though. We'll see.