Resources and Daily Activities

• Charlotte Debate
  • Fall 2025 & Spring 2026 Tournaments
  • Fall 2025 Practice Resolutions
• Conference Presentations
  • Critical Theory/MRG 2023 Presentation
  • PCA/ACA Conference Presentation 2022
  • PCAS/ACAS 2024 Presentation
  • PCAS/ACAS Presentation 2021
  • SAMLA 2024 Presentation
  • SEACS 2021 Presentation
  • SEACS 2022 Presentation
  • SEACS 2023 Presentation
  • SEACS 2024 Presentation
  • SEACS 2025 Presentation
  • SEWSA 2021 Presentation
  • South Atlantic MLA Conference 2022
• Dr. Toscano’s Homepage
• Engaging with American Democracy
  • August 19th: Introduction to Class
  • August 21st: The Declaration of Independence
    • Drafting the Declaration of Independence
  • August 26th: Attention on the Second Continental Congress
    • Abigail Adams to John Adams
    • The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
  • August 28th: “What is an American?”
    • de Crèvecoeur’s “What is an American?”
  • October 14th: Uncle Tom’s Cabin excerpt
  • October 16th: Revolutions, Civil War, Stability
  • October 21st: Civil War Stuff
  • October 23rd: Cross of Gold
  • October 28th: Catching Up on Stuff
  • October 2nd: Federalist Paper #78
  • October 30th: MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)
  • September 16th: The Pursuit of Happiness
  • September 18th: The Bill of Rights
  • September 23rd: Key Amendments
  • September 25th: Federalist Paper #10
  • September 2nd: The Constitution of the United States
  • September 30th: Federalist Paper #51
  • September 4th: Alexis de Tocqueville
  • September 9th: Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
• ENGL 2116-014: Introduction to Technical Communication
  • April 10th: Analyzing Ethics
    • Ethical Dilemmas for Homework
    • Ethical Dilemmas to Ponder
    • Mapping Our Personal Ethics
  • April 12th: Writing Ethically
  • April 17th: Ethics Continued
  • April 19th: More on Ethics in Writing and Professional Contexts
  • April 24th: Mastering Oral Presentations
  • April 3rd: Research Fun
  • April 5th: More Research Fun
    • Epistemology and Other Fun Research Ideas
    • Research
  • February 13th: Introduction to User Design
  • February 15th: Instructions for Users
    • Making Résumés and Cover Letters More Effective
  • February 1st: Reflection on Workplace Messages
  • February 20th: The Rhetoric of Technology
  • February 22nd: Social Constructions of Technology
  • February 6th: Plain Language
  • January 11th: More Introduction to Class
  • January 18th: Audience & Purpose
  • January 23rd: Résumés and Cover Letters
    • Duty Format for Résumés
    • Peter Profit’s Cover Letter
  • January 25th: More on Résumés and Cover Letters
  • January 30th: Achieving a Readable Style
    • Euphemisms
    • Prose Practice for Next Class
    • Prose Revision Assignment
    • Revising Prose: Efficiency, Accuracy, and Good
    • Sentence Clarity
  • January 9th: Introduction to the Class
  • Major Assignments
  • March 13th: Introduction to Information Design
  • March 15th: More on Information Design
  • March 20th: Reporting Technical Information
  • March 27th: The Great I, Robot Analysis
  • May 1st: Final Portfolio Requirements
• ENGL 4182/5182: Information Design & Digital Publishing
  • August 21st: Introduction to the Course
    • Rhetorical Principles of Information Design
  • August 28th: Introduction to Information Design
    • Prejudice and Rhetoric
    • Robin Williams’s Principles of Design
  • Classmates Webpages (Fall 2017)
  • December 4th: Presentations
  • Major Assignments for ENGL 4182/5182 (Fall 2017)
  • November 13th: More on Color
    • Designing with Color
    • Important Images
  • November 20th: Extra-Textual Elements
  • November 27th: Presentation/Portfolio Workshop
  • November 6th: In Living Color
  • October 16th: Type Fever
    • Typography
  • October 23rd: More on Type
  • October 2nd: MIDTERM FUN!!!
  • October 30th: Working with Graphics
    • Beerknurd Calendar 2018
  • September 11th: Talking about Design without Using “Thingy”
    • Theory, theory, practice
  • September 18th: The Whole Document
  • September 25th: Page Design
• ENGL 4183/5183: Editing with Digital Technologies
  • August 23rd: Introduction to the Class
  • August 30th: Rhetoric, Words, and Composing
  • December 6th: Words and Word Classes
  • Major Assignments for ENGL 4183/5183 (Fall 2023)
  • November 15th: Cohesive Rhythm
  • November 1st: Stylistic Variations
  • November 29th: Voice and Other Nebulous Writing Terms
    • Rhetoric of Fear (prose example)
  • November 8th: Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation
  • October 11th: Choosing Adjectivals
  • October 18th: Choosing Nominals
  • October 4th: Form and Function
  • September 13th: Verb is the Word!
  • September 27th: Coordination and Subordination
    • Parallelism
  • September 6th: Sentence Patterns
• ENGL 4275/WRDS 4011: “Rhetoric of Technology”
  • April 23rd: Presentation Discussion
  • April 2nd: Artificial Intelligence Discussion, machine (super)learning
  • April 4th: Writing and Reflecting Discussion
  • April 9th: Tom Wheeler’s The History of Our Future (Part I)
  • February 13th: Religion of Technology Part 3 of 3
  • February 15th: Is Love a Technology?
  • February 1st: Technology and Postmodernism
  • February 20th: Technology and Gender
  • February 22nd: Technology, Expediency, Racism
  • February 27th: Writing Workshop, etc.
  • February 6th: The Religion of Technology (Part 1 of 3)
  • February 8th: Religion of Technology (Part 2 of 3)
  • January 11th: Introduction to the Course
  • January 16th: Isaac Asimov’s “Cult of Ignorance”
  • January 18th: Technology and Meaning, a Humanist perspective
  • January 23rd: Technology and Democracy
  • January 25th: The Politics of Technology
  • January 30th: Discussion on Writing as Thinking
  • Major Assignments for Rhetoric of Technology
  • March 12th: Neuromancer (1984) Day 1 of 3
  • March 14th: Neuromancer (1984) Day 2 of 3
  • March 19th: Neuromancer (1984) Day 3 of 3
  • March 21st: Writing and Reflecting: Research and Synthesizing
  • March 26th: Artificial Intelligence and Risk
  • March 28th: Artificial Intelligence Book Reviews
• ENGL 6166: Rhetorical Theory
  • April 11th: Knoblauch. Ch. 4 and Ch. 5
  • April 18th: Feminisms, Rhetorics, Herstories
  • April 25th:  Knoblauch. Ch. 6, 7, and “Afterword”
  • April 4th: Jacques Derrida’s Positions
  • February 15th: St. Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine [Rhetoric]
  • February 1st: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 2 & 3
    • Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 2
    • Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 3
  • February 22nd: Knoblauch. Ch. 1 and 2
  • February 29th: Descartes, Rene, Discourse on Method
  • February 8th: Isocrates
  • January 11th: Introduction to Class
  • January 18th: Plato’s Phaedrus
  • January 25th: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 1
  • March 14th: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women
  • March 21st: Feminist Rhetoric(s)
  • March 28th: Knoblauch’s Ch. 3 and More Constitutive Rhetoric
  • Rhetorical Theory Assignments
• ENGL/COMM/WRDS: The Rhetoric of Fear
  • April 11th: McCarthyism Part 1
  • April 18th: McCarthyism Part 2
  • April 25th: The Satanic Panic
  • April 4th: Suspense/Horror/Fear in Film
  • February 14th: Fascism and Other Valentine’s Day Atrocities
  • February 21st: Fascism Part 2
  • February 7th: Fallacies Part 3 and American Politics Part 2
  • January 10th: Introduction to the Class
  • January 17th: Scapegoats & Conspiracies
  • January 24th: The Rhetoric of Fear and Fallacies Part 1
  • January 31st: Fallacies Part 2 and American Politics Part 1
  • Major Assignments
  • March 28th: Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • March 7th: Fascism Part 3
  • May 2nd: The Satanic Panic Part II
    • Rhetoric of Fear and Job Losses
• Intercultural Communication on the Amalfi Coast
  • Pedagogical Theory for Study Abroad
• LBST 2213-110: Science, Technology, and Society
  • August 22nd: Science and Technology from a Humanistic Perspective
  • August 24th: Science and Technology, a Humanistic Approach
  • August 29th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 2
  • August 31st: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 3 and 4
  • December 5th: Video Games and Violence, a more nuanced view
  • November 14th: Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes. (1964) Ch. 27-end
  • November 16th: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818. Preface-Ch. 8
  • November 21st: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818. Ch. 9-Ch. 16
  • November 28th: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Ch. 17-Ch. 24
  • November 30th: Violence in Video Games
  • November 7th: Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes Ch. 1-17
  • November 9th: Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes, Ch. 18-26
  • October 12th: Lies Economics Tells
  • October 17th: Brief Histories of Medicine, Salerno, and Galen
  • October 19th: Politicizing Science and Medicine
  • October 24th: COVID-19 Facial Covering Rhetoric
  • October 26th: Wells, H. G. Time Machine. Ch. 1-5
  • October 31st: Wells, H. G. The Time Machine Ch. 6-The End
  • October 3rd: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 7 and Conclusion
  • September 12th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 7 and Conclusion
  • September 19th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Prefaces and Ch. 1
  • September 26th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 2
  • September 28th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 5 and 6
  • September 7th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 5 and 6
• New Media: Gender, Culture, Technology
  • August 19: Introduction to the Course
  • August 21: More Introduction
  • August 26th: Consider Media-ted Arguments
  • August 28th: Media & American Culture
  • November 13th: Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Part 3
  • November 18th: Feminism’s Non-Monolithic Nature
  • November 20th: Compulsory Heterosexuality
  • November 25th: Presentation Discussion
  • November 4: Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Part 1
  • November 6: Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Part 2
  • October 16th: No Class Meeting
  • October 21: Misunderstanding the Internet, Part 1
  • October 23: Misunderstanding the Internet, Part 2
  • October 28: The Internet, Part 3
  • October 2nd: Hauntology
  • October 30th: Social Construction of Sexuality
  • October 7:  Myth in American Culture
  • September 11: Critical Theory
  • September 16th: Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality
  • September 18th: Postmodernism, Part 1
  • September 23rd: Postmodernism, Part 2
  • September 25th: Postmodernism, Part 3
  • September 30th: Capitalist Realism
  • September 4th: The Medium is the Message!
  • September 9: The Public Sphere
• Science Fiction and American Culture
  • April 10th: Octavia Butler’s Dawn (Parts III and IV)
  • April 15th: The Dispossessed (Part I)
  • April 17th: The Dispossessed (Part II)
  • April 1st: Interstellar (2014)
  • April 22nd: In/Human Beauty
  • April 24: Witch Hunt Politics (Part I)
  • April 29th: Witch Hunt Politics (Part II)
  • April 3rd: Catch Up and Start Octavia Butler
  • April 8th: Octavia Butler’s Dawn (Parts I and II)
  • February 11: William Gibson, Part II
  • February 18: Use Your Illusion I
  • February 20: Use Your Illusion II
  • February 25th: Firefly and Black Mirror
  • February 4th: Writing Discussion: Ideas & Arguments
  • February 6th: William Gibson, Part I
  • January 14th: Introduction to to “Science Fiction and American Culture”
  • January 16th: More Introduction
  • January 21st: Robots and Zombies
  • January 23rd: Gender Studies and Science Fiction
  • January 28th: American Studies Introduction
  • January 30th: World’s Beyond
  • March 11th: All Systems Red
  • March 13th: Zone One (Part 1)
    • Zone One “Friday”
  • March 18th: Zone One, “Saturday”
  • March 20th: Zone One, “Sunday”
  • March 25th: Synthesizing Sources; Writing Gooder
    • Writing Discussion–Outlines
  • March 27th: Inception (2010)
• Teaching Portfolio
• Topics for Analysis
  • A Practical Editing Situation
  • American Culture, an Introduction
  • Cultural Studies and Science Fiction Films
  • Efficiency in Writing Reviews
  • Feminism, An Introduction
  • Fordism/Taylorism
  • Frankenstein Part I
  • Frankenstein Part II
  • Futurism Introduction
  • How to Lie with Statistics
  • How to Make an Argument with Sources
  • Isaac Asimov’s “A Cult of Ignorance”
  • Judith Butler, an Introduction to Gender/Sexuality Studies
  • Langdon Winner Summary: The Politics of Technology
  • Logical Fallacies
  • Oral Presentations
  • Oratory and Argument Analysis
  • Our Public Sphere
  • Postmodernism Introduction
  • Protesting Confederate Place
  • Punctuation Refresher
  • QT, the Existential Robot
  • Religion of Technology Discussion
  • Rhetoric, an Introduction
    • Analyzing the Culture of Technical Writer Ads
    • Rhetoric of Technology
    • Visual Culture
    • Visual Perception
    • Visual Perception, Culture, and Rhetoric
    • Visual Rhetoric
    • Visuals for Technical Communication
    • World War I Propaganda
  • The Great I, Robot Discussion
    • I, Robot Short Essay Topics
  • The Rhetoric of Video Games: A Cultural Perspective
    • Civilization, an Analysis
  • The Sopranos
  • Why Science Fiction?
  • Zombies and Consumption Satire
• Video Games & American Culture
  • April 14th: Phallocentrism
  • April 21st: Video Games and Neoliberalism
  • April 7th: Video Games and Conquest
  • Assignments for Video Games & American Culture
  • February 10th: Aesthetics and Culture
  • February 17th: Narrative and Catharsis
  • February 24th: Serious Games
  • February 3rd: More History of Video Games
  • January 13th: Introduction to the course
  • January 20th: Introduction to Video Game Studies
  • January 27th: Games & Culture
    • Marxism for Video Game Analysis
    • Postmodernism for Video Game Analysis
  • March 24th: Realism, Interpretation(s), and Meaning Making
  • March 31st: Feminist Perspectives and Politics
  • March 3rd: Risky Business?