This page (and subsequent pages) will serve as a home for instructing participants interested in the debate style from the International Public Debate Association (IDPA). In addition to resources for the structure of an IPDA round and strategies.
Resources and Daily Activities
- Charlotte Debate
- 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
- SEWSA 2021 Presentation
- South Atlantic MLA Conference 2022
- Dr. Toscano’s Homepage
- ENGL 2116-014: Introduction to Technical Communication
- April 10th: Analyzing 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
- February 13th: Introduction to User Design
- February 15th: Instructions for Users
- 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
- January 25th: More on Résumés and Cover Letters
- January 30th: Achieving a Readable Style
- 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
- August 28th: Introduction to Information Design
- Classmates Webpages (Fall 2017)
- December 4th: Presentations
- Major Assignments for ENGL 4182/5182 (Fall 2017)
- November 13th: More on Color
- November 20th: Extra-Textual Elements
- November 27th: Presentation/Portfolio Workshop
- November 6th: In Living Color
- October 16th: Type Fever
- October 23rd: More on Type
- October 2nd: MIDTERM FUN!!!
- October 30th: Working with Graphics
- September 11th: Talking about Design without Using “Thingy”
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Intercultural Communication on the Amalfi Coast
- 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 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
- Assignments for Science Fiction and American Culture
- August 21: Introduction to to “Science Fiction and American Culture”
- August 23: More Introduction
- August 28: Gender Studies and Science Fiction
- August 30th: Robots and Zombies
- December 4: Witch Hunt Politics (Part I)
- December 6: Witch Hunt Politics (Part II)
- November 1: Octavia Butler’s Dawn (Part I)
- November 13: The Dispossessed (Part I)
- November 15: The Dispossessed (Part II)
- November 20: In/Human Beauty
- November 27: Wall-E and Trash
- November 6: Octavia Butler’s Dawn (Parts I and II)
- November 8: Octavia Butler’s Dawn (Parts III and IV)
- October 11th: Zone One (Part III)
- October 16th: Babel-17 (Parts I & II)
- October 18th: Babel-17 (Parts III, IV, & V)
- October 25: Inception (2010)
- October 30th: Interstellar (2014)
- October 4th: Zone One (Part 1)
- October 9th: Zone One (Part II)
- September 11th: William Gibson, Part I
- September 13th: William Gibson, Part II
- September 18: The Matrix (1999)
- September 20: Hackers (1995)
- September 25: Firefly and Black Mirror
- September 27th: All Systems Red
- September 6th: Alien Other and Worlds Beyond
- 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
- 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
- The Great I, Robot Discussion
- The Rhetoric of Video Games: A Cultural Perspective
- 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
- March 24th: Realism, Interpretation(s), and Meaning Making
- March 31st: Feminist Perspectives and Politics
- March 3rd: Risky Business?