Resources and Daily Activities

• Dr. Toscano’s Homepage
• ENGL 2116 sec. 021 & 022: Introduction to Technical Communication
  • August 1st: Ethics and Statistics Catch Up
  • Classmates Webpages (Summer II 2017)
  • ENGL 2116 sec. 021 & 022 Major Assignments (Summer 2017)
    • Final Portfolio Requirements
    • Oral Presentations
  • July 10th: Résumé Stuff
    • Making Résumés and Cover Letters More Effective
    • Peter Profit’s Cover Letter
  • July 11th: More on Résumés and Cover Letters
  • July 12th: Lessons on Plain Language
    • Euphemisms
    • Prose Homework/Practice for Next Class
    • Prose Revision Assignment
    • Revising Prose: Efficiency, Accuracy, and Good
    • Sentence Clarity
    • Topic Sentences
  • July 13th: More on Plain Language
  • July 17th: Writing for the User
  • July 18th: Final Project and Research Discussion
    • Epistemology and Other Fun Research Ideas
    • Making Résumés and Cover Letters Better
    • Research
  • July 19th: Rhetoric of Technology
    • Guglielmo Marconi Paragraph Revision
    • Housing Prices Paragraph Revision
    • Suburbanization Paragraph Revision
  • July 24th: Information Design and Visuals
    • Text and Subtext (Rows 1, 3, and 5)
    • Text and Subtext (rows 2, 4, and 6)
  • July 25th: Catch Up for Research & Visuals
  • July 27th: Continue I, Robot Discussion
  • July 31st: Ethics in Technical Communication
    • Ethical Dilemmas for Class Discussion
    • Ethical Dilemmas for Homework
    • Mapping Our Personal Ethics
  • July 5th: Introduction to the Course
  • July 6th: Audience, Purpose, and General Introduction
• 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 22nd: Introduction to the Course
  • August 29th: Rhetoric, Words, and Composing
  • December 5th: Final Presentations
  • Major Assignments for ENGL 4183/5183 (Fall 2018)
    • Efficiency in Writing Reviews
    • Rhetoric of Fear
  • November 14th: Word Usage Fun
  • November 28th: Workshop Fun
  • November 7th: Voice and Other Nebulous Writing Terms
    • Finding Dominant Rhetorical Appeals
  • October 10th: Choices and Variations
  • October 17th: Stylistic Variations
  • October 24th: We Put the “Punc” in Punctuation
    • Punctuation Refresher
  • October 31st: Cohesive Rhythm
  • October 3rd: Midterm Exam Fun
  • September 12th: Verb is the Word!
  • September 19th: Coordination and Subordination
  • September 26th: Modifying Prose
    • Guglielmo Marconi Paragraph Revision
  • September 5th: I’m in Love with the Shape of You(r Sentences)
• ENGL 4275: Rhetoric of Technology
  • Assignments for ENGL 4275
  • 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 8th: Introduction to the Course
• ENGL 4750-090 & ENGL 5050-092 Video Games & Culture
  • Assignments for Video Games & Culture
  • August 25th: Introduction to the Course
  • November 10th: Aggression & Addiction
  • November 3rd: Moral Panics and Health Risks
  • October 13th: Narrative, ludology, f(r)iction
  • October 20th: Serious Games
  • October 27: Risky Business?
  • October 6th: Hyperreality
  • September 1st: History of Video Games
  • September 22nd: Video Game Aesthetics
  • September 29th: (sub)Cultures and Video Games
  • September 8th: Defining Video Games and Critical Theory Introduction
    • Marxism for Video Game Analysis
    • Postmodernism for Video Game Analysis
• ENGL 6008/MALS 6000 The Rhetoric of Technology
  • August 22nd: Introduction to Rhetoric of Technology
  • August 29th: Introduction to Cultural Studies
  • December 5th: But I Still Love Technology…
  • ENGL 6008/MALS 6000 Rhetoric of Technology Assignments (Fall 2017)
  • History of Technical Communication
  • November 14th: All You Zombies–
  • November 21st: The The Illusion of Democracy & Communicative Capitalism
  • November 28th: Cultural Studies and Technical Communication
  • November 7th: Politics of Cyberspace…and other household technologies
  • October 17th: The Religion of Technology
    • Religion of Technology Discussion
  • October 24th: Identity Politics
  • October 31st: Technology and Gender
  • October 3rd: Science and “Perfect” Technologies
  • September 12th: The Politics of Technology
  • September 19th: New World Disorder
    • Fordism/Taylorism
  • September 26th: Postmodernism
  • September 5th: Foundational Thinkers in Cultural Studies
    • Rhetoric and Myth Making
• ENGL 6166: Rhetorical Theory
  • February 3rd: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Books 2 and 3
    • Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 2
    • Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 3
  • January 13th: Introduction to Class
  • January 27th: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Book 1
  • Rhetorical Theory Assignments
• 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)
    • More Questions than Answers
  • 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
    • Analyzing Prose in 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
    • More on Ellison
    • More on Forster
  • September 9th: The Time Machine
• New Media: Gender, Culture, Technology (Spring 2018)
  • April 11th: Hyperreality (and some video games)
  • April 18th: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, a Historical Perspective
  • April 25th: Workshop Fun
  • April 4th: Social Construction of Sexuality
  • February 14th: Convergence Culture
  • February 21: Misunderstanding the Internet
  • February 28th: Patriarchy, an Introduction
  • February 7th: Capitalist Realism and Zombies
  • January 10th: Introduction to the Course
  • January 17th: Our Public Sphere and the Media
    • Our Public Sphere
  • January 24th: The Medium is the Message/Massage
  • January 31st: Cultural Constructions
  • March 14th: Play on, Playa!
  • March 21st: Performativity
  • March 28th: The Beauty Myth and Images of Women in the Media
    • Psychoanalysis and the Male Gaze
  • New Media Assignments (Spring 2018)
• Science Fiction in American Culture (Summer I–2019)
  • Assignments for Science Fiction in American Culture
  • Cultural Studies and Science Fiction Films
  • June 10th: Conformity and Monotony
  • June 11th: Cultural Constructions of Beauty
  • June 12th: Interstellar and Exploration themes
  • June 13th: Bicentennial Man
  • June 17th: I’m Only Human…Or am I?
  • June 18th: Wall-E and Environment
  • June 19th: Wall-E (2008) and Technology
  • June 20th: Interactivity in Video Games
  • June 3rd: Firefly (2002) and Myth
  • June 4th: “Johnny Mnemonic”
  • June 5th: “New Rose Hotel”
  • June 6th: “Burning Chrome”
  • May 20th: Introduction to Class
  • May 21st: American Culture, an Introduction
  • May 22nd: The Matrix
  • May 23rd: Gender and Science Fiction
  • May 27th: Goals for I, Robot
  • May 28th: Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot
  • May 29th: Hackers and Slackers
  • May 30th: Inception
• Teaching Portfolio
• Topics for Analysis
  • American Culture, an Introduction
  • Feminism, An Introduction
  • Frankenstein Part I
  • Frankenstein Part II
  • Futurism Introduction
  • Langdon Winner Summary: The Politics of Technology
  • Postmodernism Introduction
  • Protesting Confederate Place
  • QT, the Existential Robot
  • 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