Derek has started a "CCCarnival" for Karen Kopelson's recent article in College Composition and Communication, and I'm using it as an excuse to stop the process of moving/unpacking. Put in the terms of Kopelson's discussion, I'm taking a break from "practice" to do some "theory." In responding to this piece, I'd like to focus on two things: the discussion of "new converts" to Rhet/Comp and the discussion of how Rhet/Comp "borrows" most (if not all) of its theory.