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
| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 12065 | ENC3241 | Writing for Technical Prof | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
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| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 93230 | ENC4414 | Writing and Hypertext | Mixed Mode (M) | Unavailable | |
| Writing and HTML/CSS coding for online environments, hypertext architectures, and electronic literacy theory to develop a more critical and applied understanding of hypertext. This course is a restricted elective in the Technical Communication major and Digital Humanities minor and was designed with humanities students in mind, so if you haven’t had any prior experience with hypertext technology, this is fine. All majors are welcome. In this course, we will work on our writing skills, our Web site architecture skills, and our technical coding skills based on CSS and HTML to produce 1) a personal Web site, and 2) an informational Web site that you build from a ten-page term paper you write for this course on anything to do with digital humanities or technical communication. By the end of the semester, you will be a competent Web site technician and writer and have a strong theoretical and applied sense of how traditional texts or bodies of writing can be converted into hypertext documents that you build from scratch. | |||||
| 93575 | ENC6338 | The Rhetorics of Public Debate | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
| No Description Available | |||||
| 83521 | LIT4433 | Literature of Science and Tech | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
| In the Literature of Science and Technology, we will examine the topics of science, technical communication, culture, philosophy, and the philosophy of language and texts. You will be required to write one ten-page paper on one of these three texts assigned for the course: White Noise by Don DeLillo, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. This means that while you will be responsible for reading all three of our texts and doing the on-line work that is required for each book, you will only be responsible for writing a paper on one book. | |||||
No courses found for Summer 2025.
| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 19209 | ENC4414 | Writing and Hypertext | Mixed Mode (M) | Unavailable | |
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| 20060 | LIT6435 | Rhetoric of Science | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
| <p><span>LIT 6435 will be a general approach to the rhetoric of science–kairos, ethos, pathos, logos, and stasis theory —with specific attention to discourse and paradigm shifts in science. The general text for the book will be Crowley and Hawhee's <i>Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students</i>. Additionally, we will be reading four chapters from Elizabeth Kolbert's <i>The Sixth Extinction</i> with some attendant articles from traditional scientific journals such as <i>Nature</i> 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>. 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> </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> | |||||
| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 93655 | ENC4280 | Technical Writing Style | Mixed Mode (M) | Unavailable | |
| Prerequisite: ENC 3241. Applies as:
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| 92396 | LIT4433 | Literature of Science and Tech | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
| Prerequisite: ENC 1102 with a 'C' (2.0) or higher. LIT 4433 IS NOT A LITERARY HISTORY CLASS. Applies as:
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No courses found for Summer 2024.
Updated: Aug 22, 2023