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ENG 651 Week 3: Let’s Talk Jobs

Today’s Plan: Week 3 Write Ups Discuss Week 2 Write Ups and Week 3 Readings In-class writing exercise: Let’s Play Tom Share Journal Analysis Ideas For Next Session A Quick Review of Last Weeks Write Ups I’ve returned last week’s … Continue reading

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ENG 231 3.T: Reviewing Procedural Rhetoric (Again), [Academic] Paper Crash Course

Today’s Plan: Game Journals & Feedback Academic Paper Crash Course Any time remaining? Two Games Homework Game Journals & Feedback I’ve been checking in on the game journals–I think I got through about 1/2 of them yesterday. I tried to … Continue reading

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ENG 301 3.T: What is(n’t) Rhetoric?

Today’s Plan: Reviewing Herrick Job Codes Homework Rhetorical Theory Let’s take a crack at defining rhetoric. And then let’s take a crack at defining “the humanities.” What does it mean to study a humanity? *Why* study the humanities? Reviewing the … Continue reading

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ENG 651 Week 2: Foundation of PWTC

Write Ups Further Discussion Fadde and Sullivan Email (Part One) Fadde and Sullivan Email (Part Two) Professional Writing Review Essay Readings for Next Week’s Write Up Write Ups Here’s mine. Resources for Further Discussion Miller questions: What is positivism? Why … Continue reading

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ENG 301 2.T: Brumberger and Lauer, Analyzing Job Ads

Today’s Plan: Brumberger and Lauer Selecting Jobs from the Corpus Practice Coding Homework Brumberger and Lauer Canvas discussion. Selecting Jobs from the Corpus There’s an assignment in Canvas. Let’s take a look. Practice Coding Let’s pick up where we left … Continue reading

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ENG 231 2.T/R: Nuts and Bolts of a Procedural Analysis

Reviewing Bogost Questions / Feedback Procedural Rhetoric: Identifying Mechanics To The Google Doc Let’s Play: Papers Please Homework: First Project, a Procedural Analysis Thursday Update I’ve gone through the ideas we developed on Tuesday for a procedural analysis and attempted … Continue reading

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ENG 231 1.R: Bogost, Procedurality /

Today’s Plan: Defining Rhetoric Bogost Discussion Playing Some Games Homework Defining Rhetoric One thing I forgot to do: circle back and “define” rhetoric (how Aristotelian, to singularly identify what some/thing “is”). Let me take a swing. I consider rhetoric as … Continue reading

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ENG 301 1.R: Questions, Job Ads

Today’s Plan: Reviewing Your Questions Coding Job Ads Homework: Brumberger & Lauer Reading and Discussion Reviewing Your Questions My question for you is about what the job market looks like for students graduating with their bachelors in English. I’m going … Continue reading

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ENG 651 Week 1: Rhetoric

Today’s Plan: Syllabus Reading Responses (?) Some Kind of Lecture Thing Talking About Corder For Next Class Syllabus Let’s take a quick peek. Reading Responses Due to my messaging snafu, I’m unsure how many folks will have read the Herrick … Continue reading

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ENG 231 1.T: Welcome, Rhetoric & Procedurality

Today’s Plan: Syllabus WTF is Rhetoric? Ian Bogost and Procedurality Homework Syllabus I sort of have one. WTF is(n’t) Rhetoric? Here we go again. Levinas: “Ontology, which reduces the other to the same, promotes freedom–the freedom that is the identification … Continue reading

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