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)
- July 10th: Résumé Stuff
- July 11th: More on Résumés and Cover Letters
- July 12th: Lessons on Plain Language
- July 13th: More on Plain Language
- July 17th: Writing for the User
- July 18th: Final Project and Research Discussion
- July 19th: Rhetoric of Technology
- July 24th: Information Design and Visuals
- July 25th: Catch Up for Research & Visuals
- July 27th: Continue I, Robot Discussion
- July 31st: Ethics in Technical Communication
- 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
- 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 22nd: Introduction to the Course
- August 29th: Rhetoric, Words, and Composing
- December 5th: Final Presentations
- Major Assignments for ENGL 4183/5183 (Fall 2018)
- November 14th: Word Usage Fun
- November 28th: Workshop Fun
- November 7th: Voice and Other Nebulous Writing Terms
- October 10th: Choices and Variations
- October 17th: Stylistic Variations
- October 24th: We Put the “Punc” in Punctuation
- October 31st: Cohesive Rhythm
- October 3rd: Midterm Exam Fun
- September 12th: Verb is the Word!
- September 19th: Coordination and Subordination
- September 26th: Modifying Prose
- September 5th: I’m in Love with the Shape of You(r Sentences)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- September 26th: Postmodernism
- September 5th: Foundational Thinkers in Cultural Studies
- ENGL 6166/MALS 6000: Rhetorical Theory
- April 10th: Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition
- April 17th: Simulation and Essence
- April 24th: Jameson Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
- April 3rd: Derrida’s (refusal to have) Positions
- February 13th: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Books 2 and 3
- February 20th: St. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine [Rhetoric]
- February 27th: Rene Descartes’ Discourse on Method
- February 6th: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Book 1
- January 23rd: Plato’s Phaedrus
- January 30th: Plato’s Gorgias
- January 9th: Introduction to Class
- March 13th: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- March 20th: Roland Barthes’s Mythologies
- March 27th: Friedrich Nietzsche
- May 1st: What is Real? Where do Rhetoric and Philosophy go from here?
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Postmodernism Introduction
- Protesting Confederate Place
- QT, the Existential Robot
- 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