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Resources and Daily Activities
- Conference Presentations
- 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 24th: Introduction to the Class
- August 31st: Rhetoric, Words, and Composing
- Major Assignments for ENGL 4183/5183 (Fall 2022)
- November 16th: Voice and Other Nebulous Writing Terms
- November 2nd: Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation
- November 30th: Words and Word Classes
- November 9th: Cohesive Rhythm
- October 12th: Choosing Adjectivals
- October 19th: Choosing Nominals
- October 26th: Stylistic Variations
- October 5th: Midterm Exam
- September 14th: Verb is the Word!
- September 21st: Coordination and Subordination
- September 28th: Form and Function
- September 7th: 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
- 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
- Intercultural Communication on the Amalfi Coast
- LBST 2212-124, 125, 126, & 127
- August 21st: Introduction to Class
- August 23rd: Humanistic Approach to Science Fiction
- August 26th: Robots and Zombies
- August 28th: Futurism, an Introduction
- August 30th: R. A. Lafferty “Slow Tuesday Night” (1965)
- December 2nd: Technological Augmentation
- December 4th: Posthumanism
- November 11th: Salt Fish Girl (Week 2)
- November 13th: Salt Fish Girl (Week 2 con’t)
- November 18th: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 1)
- November 1st: Games Reality Plays (part II)
- November 20th: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 2)
- November 6th: Salt Fish Girl (Week 1)
- October 14th: More Autonomous Fun
- October 16th: Autonomous Conclusion
- October 21st: Sci Fi in the Domestic Sphere
- October 23rd: Social Aphasia
- October 25th: Dust in the Wind
- October 28th: Gender Liminality and Roles
- October 2nd: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- October 30th: Games Reality Plays (part I)
- October 9th: Approaching Autonomous
- September 11th: The Time Machine
- September 16th: The Alien Other
- September 18th: Post-apocalyptic Worlds
- September 20th: Dystopian Visions
- September 23rd: World’s Beyond
- September 25th: Gender Studies and Science Fiction
- September 30th: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- September 4th: Science Fiction and Social Breakdown
- September 9th: The Time Machine
- 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
- Science Fiction in American Culture (Summer I–2020)
- Assignments for Science Fiction in American Culture
- Cultural Studies and Science Fiction Films
- June 10th: Interstellar and Exploration themes
- June 11th: Bicentennial Man
- June 15th: I’m Only Human…Or am I?
- June 16th: Wall-E and Environment
- June 17th: Wall-E (2008) and Technology
- June 18th: Interactivity in Video Games
- June 1st: Firefly (2002) and Myth
- June 2nd: “Johnny Mnemonic”
- June 3rd: “New Rose Hotel”
- June 4th: “Burning Chrome”
- June 8th: Conformity and Monotony
- June 9th: Cultural Constructions of Beauty
- May 18th: Introduction to Class
- May 19th: American Culture, an Introduction
- May 20th: The Matrix
- May 21st: Gender and Science Fiction
- May 25th: Goals for I, Robot
- May 26th: Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot
- May 27th: Hackers and Slackers
- May 30th: Inception
- Teaching Portfolio
- Topics for Analysis
- A Practical Editing Situation
- American Culture, an Introduction
- Efficiency in Writing Reviews
- Feminism, An Introduction
- Fordism/Taylorism
- Frankenstein Part I
- Frankenstein Part II
- Futurism Introduction
- How to Lie with Statistics
- 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
- 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?