Resources and Daily Activities
- Conference Presentations
- Dr. Toscano’s Homepage
- ENGL 2116-082: Introduction to Technical Communication
- ENGL 2116 sec. 082 Major Assignments (Summer 2021)
- June 14th: Information Design
- June 15th: Proposals, Marketing, and Rhetoric
- June 17th: More I, Robot and Science Fiction in a Technical Communication context Discussion
- June 1st: Plain Language and Prose Revision
- June 21st: Ethics and Perspective Discussion
- June 22nd: More on Ethics
- June 2nd: More on Plain Language
- June 3rd: Review Prose Revision
- June 7th: Effective Documents for Users
- June 8th: Final Project and Research Discussion
- June 9th: Technology in a Social Context
- May 24th: Introduction to the course
- May 25th: Critical Technological Awareness
- May 26th: Audience, Purpose, and General Introduction
- May 27th: Résumé Stuff
- May 31st: More Resume Stuff
- 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
- April 14th: Cohesive Rhythm
- April 21st: Voice and Other Nebulous Writing Terms
- April 28th: Word Usage Fun
- April 7th: Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation
- Efficiency in Writing Reviews
- February 17th: Verb is the Word!
- February 24th: Coordination and Subordination
- February 3rd: I’m in Love with the Shape of You(r Sentences)
- Finding Dominant Rhetorical Appeals
- January 20th: Introduction to the Course
- January 27th: Rhetoric, Words, and Composing
- Major Assignments for ENGL 4183/5183 (Spring 2021)
- March 10th: Midterm Exam
- March 17th: Choosing Adjectivals
- March 24th: Choosing Nominals
- March 31st: Stylistic Variations
- March 3rd: Form and Function
- May 5th: Last Day of “Class”
- 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 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 6166: Rhetorical Theory
- April 13th: Umberto Eco & Jean Baudrillard
- April 20th: Moving Forward on Theory
- April 27th: Last Day of Class
- April 6th: Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition
- February 10th: St. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine [Rhetoric]
- February 17th: Knoblauch on Magical and Ontological Rhetoric
- February 24th: Rene Descartes’ Discourse on Method
- February 3rd: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Books 2 and 3
- January 13th: Introduction to Class
- January 27th: Aristotle’s On Rhetoric Book 1
- March 16th: Friedrich Nietzsche
- March 23rd: Mythologies and Meaning of Meaning (part 2)
- March 30th: Derrida’s (refusal to have) Positions
- March 9th: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- 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
- LBST 2213/HTAS 2100: Science, Technology, and Society
- December 10th: Violence in Video Games
- December 15th: Video Games and Violence, a more nuanced view
- December 1st: COVID-19 facial covering rhetoric
- December 3rd: COVID-19 Transmission and Pandemics
- December 8th: 500-word Essay
- November 10th: Planet of the Apes. (1964) Ch. 27-end
- November 12th: Frankenstein (1818) Preface-Ch. 8
- November 17th: Frankenstein (1818) Ch. 9-Ch. 16
- November 19th: Frankenstein (1818) Ch. 17-Ch. 24
- November 3rd: Planet of the Apes. (1964) Ch. 1-17
- November 5th: Planet of the Apes (1964) Ch. 18-26
- October 13th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 5 and 6
- October 15th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 7 and Conclusion
- October 1st: The Golem at Large Introduction & Ch. 1
- October 22nd: The Time Machine
- October 29th: H.G. Wells and Adaptations
- October 6th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology) Ch. 2
- October 8th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem at Large (Technology), Ch. 3 & 4
- September 10th: Science and Technology, a Humanistic Approach
- September 15th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 2
- September 17th: Collins & Pinch’s The Golem (Science), Ch. 3 and 4
- September 22nd: Collins & Pinch Ch. 5 & 6
- September 24th: Collins & Pinch Ch. 7 & Conclusion
- September 29th: Test 1
- September 8th: Introduction to Class
- 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
- American Culture, an Introduction
- Feminism, An Introduction
- Fordism/Taylorism
- Frankenstein Part I
- Frankenstein Part II
- Futurism Introduction
- Langdon Winner Summary: The Politics of Technology
- Marxist Theory (cultural analysis)
- Oral Presentations
- 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