Intro. to Technical Writing - Course Materials by Alex C Nielsen
This document provides brief instructional overviews tying the first three (individual) projects ... more This document provides brief instructional overviews tying the first three (individual) projects for 334W to readings, lecture agenda, and course outcomes. It includes a brief overview of deliverables and assessment for each project.
This lesson plan with group activities and lecture content is designed to coordinate with the Typ... more This lesson plan with group activities and lecture content is designed to coordinate with the Type and Design presentation document. It includes a font-pairing activity based on physical type sample cards, which is designed to encourage students to explore type pairings in a low-stakes, playful, physical format.
This sample syllabus provides a detailed course agenda, reading , and assignment schedule for an ... more This sample syllabus provides a detailed course agenda, reading , and assignment schedule for an introductory course in Technical Writing with a focus on developing genre familiarity, rhetorical appreciation of stakeholder and audience concerns, and knowledge of the theoretical and ethical questions of the field.
This presentation provides an overview through representative samples for the introduction of typ... more This presentation provides an overview through representative samples for the introduction of type design and font use in Technical Communication. Its primary goal is to descriptively raise questions of the role and significance of type design choices in technical documents.
General by Alex C Nielsen
In the modern critical environment, there has been a renewed interest in the role that proto-femi... more In the modern critical environment, there has been a renewed interest in the role that proto-feminist and feminist satires have played in the development of cultural commentary and the modern novel. Lesser-studied works have seen several new approaches applied by critics such as Rachel Carnell, Rebecca Bullard, and Ruth Herman, who have focused on the role of the genre of “secret history” in the popular growth of the novel as a form for political dissent. Secret history, which can offer revelatory glimpses into the contemporary scandals and governance of the female authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is a field that, properly contextualized, can provide a new focus for previously under-appreciated
works, themes, and literary strategies.
In this study, these critics’ contributions are applied to an interpretation of the works of Delarivier Manley (c. 1663 – 1724), and specifically to the proto-novel Secret Memoirs
and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, vols. 1 and 2 (1709) as a turning point in the development of modern tropes and the utilization of utopian and dystopian spaces, especially those based upon or resembling the mythical lost nation of Atlantis. Extending Manley’s semi-biographical secret history from the elements
of cultural and political satire present in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) and Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1624), the study aims to demonstrate that Manley’s text has dramatically
influenced the modern interpretation of Atlantis specifically, and dystopias generally, in diverse cultural media including film, literature, comic books, and mythology.
Examining the cataclysmic motifs of Atlantean utopias, anti-utopias, and dystopias, the study attempts to note the ways in which Manley’s The New Atalantis has permanently revised the accepted causes and motivations for the destruction of the Atlantean continent and the rhetorical commentary that these cataclysmic representations provide the modern
reader as well as the creators of modern media.
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Intro. to Technical Writing - Course Materials by Alex C Nielsen
General by Alex C Nielsen
works, themes, and literary strategies.
In this study, these critics’ contributions are applied to an interpretation of the works of Delarivier Manley (c. 1663 – 1724), and specifically to the proto-novel Secret Memoirs
and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, vols. 1 and 2 (1709) as a turning point in the development of modern tropes and the utilization of utopian and dystopian spaces, especially those based upon or resembling the mythical lost nation of Atlantis. Extending Manley’s semi-biographical secret history from the elements
of cultural and political satire present in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) and Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1624), the study aims to demonstrate that Manley’s text has dramatically
influenced the modern interpretation of Atlantis specifically, and dystopias generally, in diverse cultural media including film, literature, comic books, and mythology.
Examining the cataclysmic motifs of Atlantean utopias, anti-utopias, and dystopias, the study attempts to note the ways in which Manley’s The New Atalantis has permanently revised the accepted causes and motivations for the destruction of the Atlantean continent and the rhetorical commentary that these cataclysmic representations provide the modern
reader as well as the creators of modern media.
works, themes, and literary strategies.
In this study, these critics’ contributions are applied to an interpretation of the works of Delarivier Manley (c. 1663 – 1724), and specifically to the proto-novel Secret Memoirs
and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, vols. 1 and 2 (1709) as a turning point in the development of modern tropes and the utilization of utopian and dystopian spaces, especially those based upon or resembling the mythical lost nation of Atlantis. Extending Manley’s semi-biographical secret history from the elements
of cultural and political satire present in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) and Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1624), the study aims to demonstrate that Manley’s text has dramatically
influenced the modern interpretation of Atlantis specifically, and dystopias generally, in diverse cultural media including film, literature, comic books, and mythology.
Examining the cataclysmic motifs of Atlantean utopias, anti-utopias, and dystopias, the study attempts to note the ways in which Manley’s The New Atalantis has permanently revised the accepted causes and motivations for the destruction of the Atlantean continent and the rhetorical commentary that these cataclysmic representations provide the modern
reader as well as the creators of modern media.