On November 17, the DWRL hosted a guest lecture and Q &A with Dr. Linda Walsh. Dr. Walsh is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on rhetoric of science, topologies, visual rhetoric, and reception studies with specific attention to the ethos, or...
Workshop Recap: Network Modeling in R
For week three of skills workshops, Dr. Scott Graham, Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, guided DWRL students through the concept of Network Modeling in R. The workshop began by defining and outlining what a network represents and how a...
Workshop Recap: Data Visualization
Using data to support an argument is standard, but putting together an interpretation of data that sustains your idea is not a simple task. That is why in the second workshop of the 2019-2020 school year, Pulitzer Prize winner Visual Journalist Chris Canipe came to the DWRL to teach us...
Workshop Recap: Making Sense of Data
In the first workshop of the 2019-2020 school year, PhD candidate Amy Tuttle came to instruct the DWRL staff on making sense of data. While working with data can be terrifying to many humanities scholars, Amy sought to demystify the process of working with data for us all. Amy Tuttle...
Speaker Series Recap: Professor David Rieder
For the DWRL's annual Speaker Series in April 2018, Professor Reider discussed three canons of rhetoric that he developed for the post-PC era of physical computing: transduction, allegorization, and eversion. These canons help his students make projects with microcontrollers and code. Watch the talk here: