for the official blog record, here's everything I get to teach this fall--
English 1020: Composition & Rhetoric II
an entirely new course for me, more or less. last time I taught anything like this was spring 2013 at Texas Tech University. I'm a much different instructor at a much different institution this time. but I think this class will be fun-- one of our projects involves writing about some of the opinions/controversies on the Change My View subreddit. each student is also choosing a theme to research and write about over the semester. should keep things exciting for us all.
English 3230: Technical Composition
this is my seventh section of this course. oddly, I've only got the one Monday-Wednesday-Friday section for this semester. 15 students, 15 weeks left. I've switched up a lot of things for this time around (including our textbook), so it's been more work to prep for this time around. ah well. we're doing our team project first, then instructions, then resumes, etc. hopefully plenty of useful learning happens.
English 3610: Intro to Digital Cultures
this is the undergraduate version of my graduate course, Engl 6560, last spring. different readings, a lot more hands-on things in our face-to-face classroom. yesterday I had students compare/contrast working in Google Docs vs. Word Online vs. Graphite. in future weeks I want to have us play around with wikis, twine, glitch, twitter threads, terms of service, interface design, maps, social media, and maybe some of these activities too.
English 5220: Technical Writing
this year, I'm teaching this graduate course to 9 students instead of just 2. it's my one online class this semester, and it should be great. we're using Solving Problems in Technical Communication as our main textbook, and we also get to read (or listen to) all this great stuff:
- Johnson, Tom. Simplifying Complexity, Intro https://idratherbewriting.com/simplifying-complexity/
- Nordquist, Richard. “Technical Writing” https://www.thoughtco.com/technical-writing-1692530
- Giordano, Connie. “What is Technical Writing” https://techwhirl.com/what-is-technical-writing
- O’Hara, Frederick. “A Brief History of Technical Communication”
- Rutter, Russell. “History, Rhetoric, and Humanism: Toward a More Comprehensive Definition of Technical Communication”
- Durack, Katherine. “Gender, Technology, and the History of Technical Communication”
- Jones, Natasha, Moore, Kristen, & Walton, Rebecca. “Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication”
- 10-minute Tech Comm Podcast, “Dr. Emily January Petersen on How Women Technical Communicators Get Undervalued.” https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/uah-technical-writing/10minute-tech-comm/e/54413468
- Allen, Jo. “The Case Against Defining Technical Writing”
- 10-minute Tech Comm Podcast, “Katherine Spivey on Plain Language” https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/uah-technical-writing/10minute-tech-comm/e/katherine-spivey-on-plain-language-42062936
- Johnson, Tom. “Plain Language Ruined My Delight in Language”
- Johnson, Tom. “The variety of tools tech comm professionals use” https://idratherbewriting.com/2016/08/21/survey-of-tech-writing-tools-among-professionals/
- section from https://www.usability.gov/what-and-why/index.html
- Markel, M. “Ethics and Technical Communication: A Case for Foundational Approaches”
- Rabil, Richard. “Order Out of Chaos: Patterns of Organization for Writing on the Job” https://alistapart.com/article/order-out-of-chaos-patterns-of-organization-for-writing-on-the-job/
- 10-minute Tech Comm Podcast, “Dr. Kirk St. Amant on User Experience in International Contexts” https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/uah-technical-writing/10minute-tech-comm/e/52583945
- 10-minute Tech Comm Podcast, “Amruta Ranade on Learning New Technology” https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/uah-technical-writing/10minute-tech-comm/e/55624504
- Wilson, G. & Wolford, R. “The Technical Communicator as (Post-Postmodern) Discourse Worker”
ten days done, most of four whole months left to go...
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