First class: ENGH 824

In less than a week I'm going to begin the first class in my program, titled "Teaching Technical Communication."  I have been endlessly amused by the fact that I'm beginning my program by learning how to teach it.

Since it's summer and an abbreviated session, this means that for the duration it will be roughly equivalent to taking two classes at once while I work.  If it turns out I can hack it, after taking one class in the Fall I'll probably go full-time in the Spring.  I've been comparing notes with some of my coworkers, and they know folks who have worked full time, did a full time PhD and had kids.  My fiancé and I are planning to have kids, but hopefully not until I finish.

I'm a bit behind on organizing my research here, mostly due to sloth.  Today I'm in the process of doing a big update relating to genre and genre theory.  One of the benefits of organization is the realization that the oldest reference to genre that I had previously been exposed to ("Genre as Social Action") is not as far back as one can go.

Most of my program will consist of squinting at Cillian Murphy.

And this is one of the many reasons citation is important.  I was able to hop from Miller to Harrell and Linkugel and from Harrell and Linkugel to Edwin Black.  I'm stopped there, though, until I can pull it from the library and see how much further back I can go.  In the meantime I'll be including the works on genre I've already had some exposure to.





Citations for the pieces mentioned:

Black, Edwin. Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method. New York: Macmillan, 1965. Print.

Harrell, Jackson, and Wil A. Linkugel. "On Rhetorical Genre: An Organizing Perspective." Philosophy & Rhetoric 11.4 (1978): 262-281. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 27 May 2015

Miller, Carolyn R. "Genre As Social Action." Quarterly Journal Of Speech 70.2 (1984): 151-167. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 27 May 2015