Here’s where we’ll put up practice resolutions, so we know what we’re doing…and what we’ve done.
September 2, 2025: Donald Trump should have won the 2020* US Presidential Election.
*Note the year is “2020” and not “2024”
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
- 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
- August 26th: Attention on the Second Continental Congress
- August 28th: “What is an American?”
- September 2nd: The Constitution of the United States
- September 4th: Alexis de Tocqueville
- September 9th: Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- 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 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)
- March 18th: Zone One, “Saturday”
- March 20th: Zone One, “Sunday”
- March 25th: Synthesizing Sources; Writing Gooder
- 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
- 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?