Category: Rhetoric

Rhetoric in Action: The Senior Thesis with Dr. Tom Vierra

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Post date November 25, 2025
Categories In Academic Integrity, AI and education, antithesis paper, applied rhetoric, Aristotle, Augustine, Basecamp Live, biblical worldview, capstone project, Christian education, Cicero, civil discourse, Classical Christian, classical Christian education, classical schools, classical tradition, College Preparation, Critical Thinking, dialectic, Discourses, Dr. Tom Vieira, exordium, grammar dialectic rhetoric, narratio, partitio, persuasion, public speaking, refutatio, research paper, Rhetoric, senior thesis, six parts of rhetoric, student formation, thesis defense, thesis topics, truth and beauty, Wilson Hill Academy

Senior thesis is the capstone of a classical Christian education, and Dr. Tom Vierra believes it may be one of the most countercultural things schools do today. In this episode, Davies Owens talks with Tom, longtime classical educator and Senior Thesis Coordinator at Wilson Hill Academy, about why thesis is far more than “just a…

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Are We Protecting – or Preparing – Our Kids? with Chuck Evans

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Post date September 2, 2025
Categories In Augustine, Basecamp Live, Chuck Evans, classical Christian education, Discourses, Parenting, parents, peacemakers, persuasion not coercion, protect vs prepare, Rhetoric, Wisdom and Eloquence

In this episode of BaseCamp Live, host Davies Owens welcomes Chuck Evans – longtime leader in classical Christian education and co-author of Wisdom and Eloquence. Nearly 20 years after the book’s original release, Chuck reflects on why he and Robert Littlejohn rewrote the new parent edition, and why the balance between protecting and preparing children matters more than ever….

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Summer Flashback: Writing and Speaking Well with Andrew Pudewa

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Post date July 1, 2025
Categories In Andrew Pudewa, articulate students, Basecamp Live, Classical Christian, classical Christian education, classical education, communication skills, Critical Thinking, Discourses, education priorities, homeschooling, Institute for Excellence in Writing, language arts, memorization, Reading Aloud, Rhetoric, speaking skills, student formation, teaching speaking, teaching writing, thinking well, vocabulary development, writing skills

Welcome to this summer flashback episode of BaseCamp Live! In today’s conversation, host Davies Owens revisits a powerful interview with Andrew Pudewa, founder and director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing. In an age of shrinking vocabularies, short attention spans, and over-reliance on screens, Andrew shares why writing and speaking well are more critical than…

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