Just a reminder of what we're doing, why we're here, etc.:
This is required.
This is our area of interest.
We plan to be teaching down the road (or again).
We want to sound smart, to improve our writing, to improve our students' writing at the high school and/or college level.
We desire to broaden our view of composition and/or rhetoric, to learn more new things and/or digital rhetoric in particular.
We are curious about why we write the way we do.
We are here out of ignorance, because we "don't wanna not know."