J.D. Applen

J.D. Applen, Ph.D.

Education

  • Ph.D. in English from the University of Arizona (1994)

Research Interests

  • Classical and Contemporary Rhetoric
  • Technical Communication for students across UCF in all majors
  • Hypertext and Writing for the Web
  • XML and Digital Archiving
  • Literature of Science and Technology
  • The Discourse of Science

Selected Publications

Books

  • Applen, J.D.  Writing for the Web: Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites. New York: Routledge, June, 2013.
  • Applen, J.D., and Rudy McDaniel. The Rhetorical Nature of XML. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Awards

  • Gloria Jaffe Outstanding Technical Communicator Award of 2016.  Presented by the Orlando Central Florida Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.   February, 2016.
  • TIP Award. (Teaching Incentive Program). UCF College of Arts and Sciences. $5000.  May, 2011.
  • UCF Competitive Sabbatical. CAH.  Fall, 2010.
  • TIP Award. (Teaching Incentive Program). UCF College of Arts and Sciences. $5000.  May, 2004.

Activities

  • Department of English Graduate Committee
  • Texts and Technology Committee
  • Future Technical Communicators Student Club Adviser
  • Professional Development Committee
  • Technical Communication Track Coordinator

Courses

No courses found for Fall 2025.

No courses found for Summer 2025.

Course Number Course Title Mode Date and Time Syllabus
19209 ENC4414 Writing and Hypertext Mixed Mode (M) Th 01:30 PM - 02:45 PM Unavailable
No Description Available
20060 LIT6435 Rhetoric of Science Web-Based (W) 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM Unavailable
<p><span>LIT 6435 will be a general approach to&nbsp;the rhetoric&nbsp;of science–kairos, ethos, pathos, logos, and stasis theory —with specific attention to discourse and paradigm shifts in science. &nbsp;The general text for the book will be Crowley and Hawhee's <i>Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students</i>.&nbsp; Additionally, we will be reading four chapters from Elizabeth Kolbert's <i>The Sixth Extinction</i>&nbsp;with some attendant articles from traditional scientific journals such as <i>Nature</i>&nbsp;on genomic studies and the Anthropocene epoch that Kolbert bases her "popular science" or "journalistic science" work on. We will also look at position papers from the Union of Concerned Scientists on global warming and several chapters from David George Haskell's <i>The Forest Unseen</i>. &nbsp;Haskell is a biologist by training but he employs a lot of figurative language in his writing so we will examine his literary style.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This is both a core course and a restricted elective in the Technical Communication track, but graduate students majoring in Literary, Cultural and Textual Studies; Creative Writing; Writing and Rhetoric; and the Texts and Technology Ph.D. program are also welcome.</p> <br>

Updated: Aug 22, 2023