Rhetoric & Technical Communication
Rhetoric & Technical Communication
Aaron A. Toscano, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of English
Resources and Daily Activities
Conference Presentations
Critical Theory/MRG 2023 Presentation
PCA/ACA Conference Presentation 2022
PCAS/ACAS Presentation 2021
SEACS 2021 Presentation
SEACS 2022 Presentation
SEACS 2023 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
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: Rhetoric of Technology
April 13th: Authorities in Science and Technology
April 15th: Articles on Violence in Video Games
April 20th: Presentations
April 6th: Technology in the home
April 8th: Writing Discussion
Assignments for ENGL 4275
February 10th: Religion of Technology Part 3 of 3
February 12th: Is Love a Technology?
February 17th: Technology and Gender
February 19th: Technology and Expediency
February 24th: Semester Review
February 3rd: Religion of Technology Part 1 of 3
February 5th: Religion of Technology Part 2 of 3
January 13th: Technology and Meaning, a Humanist perspective
January 15th: Technology and Democracy
January 22nd: The Politics of Technology
January 27th: Discussion on Writing as Thinking
January 29th: Technology and Postmodernism
January 8th: Introduction to the Course
March 11th: Writing and Other Fun
March 16th: Neuromancer (1984) Day 1 of 2
March 18th: Neuromancer (1984) Day 2 of 2
March 23rd: Inception (2010)
March 25th: Writing and Reflecting Discussion
March 30th & April 1st: Count Zero
March 9th: William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984)
ENGL 6166: Rhetorical Theory
April 12th: Knoblauch. Ch. 4 and Ch. 5
April 19th: Jacques Derrida’s Positions
April 26th: Feminisms and Rhetorics
April 5th: Knoblauch. Ch. 3 and More Constitutive Rhetoric
February 15th: Isocrates (Part 2)
February 1st: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Books 2 & 3
Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 2
Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 3
February 22nd: St. Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine [Rhetoric]
February 8th: Isocrates (Part 1)-2nd Half of Class
January 11th: Introduction to Class
January 18th: Plato’s Phaedrus
January 25th: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Book 1
March 15th: Descartes, Rene, Discourse on Method
March 1st: Knoblauch. Ch. 1 and 2
March 22nd: Mary Wollstonecraft
March 29th: Second Wave Feminist Rhetoric
May 3rd: Knoblauch. Ch. 6, 7, and “Afterword”
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 (Spring 2021)
April 13th: Virtually ‘Real’ Environments
April 20th: Rhetoric/Composition Defines New Media
April 27th: Sub/Cultural Politics, Hegemony, and Agency
April 6th: Capitalist Realism
February 16: Misunderstanding the Internet
February 23rd: Our Public Sphere and the Media
February 2nd: Introduction to Cultural Studies
January 26th: Introduction to New Media
Major Assignments for New Media (Spring 2021)
March 16th: Identity Politics
March 23rd: Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality
March 2nd: Foundational Thinkers in Cultural Studies
March 30th: Hyperreality
March 9th: Globalization & Postmodernism
May 4th: Wrapping Up The Semester
Jodi Dean “The The Illusion of Democracy” & “Communicative Capitalism”
Social Construction of Sexuality
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”
Langdon Winner Summary: The Politics of Technology
Marxist Theory (cultural analysis)
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
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