Rhetoric & Technical Communication
Rhetoric & Technical Communication
Aaron A. Toscano, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of English
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
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 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
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?
Contact Me
Office: Fretwell 255F
Email:
atoscano@uncc.edu
ENGL 4182/5182: Information Design & Digital Publishing
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Classmates Webpages (Fall 2017)
ENGL 4182/5182 “Information Design & Digital Publishing” Fall 2017
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