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Articles

Miller's Tale PRE/TEXT, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-4.

The Task of the Name: A Reply to Carol Poster Philosophy and Rhetoric, 41.3. View the entire issue on Project Muse.

Readings and Rereadings (Review of House of Leaves)

Only Revolutions (Review)

Falling Man (Review)

Fragile Things (Review)

Omega the Unknown (Review)

Total Interaction (Review)

Multimodalities

Dissertation Excerpt
The introduction, first chapter, and an excursus from my dissertation. The full dissertation can be found on proquest.

Helenistic Encomium
A Kairos 'Disputatio' about comics and sophistry.

Media Suitcase
A project for Cynthia Haynes' RCID 805 course in Rhetorics, Communication and Information Technologies. It includes Visual ReMix, Video Manifesto, Experience Design, and Electronic Monument projects.

Mechamputext
A video project for Victor Vitanza's RCID 802 course in Histories of Rhetorics, featuring music by the Mars Volta and theory by Bernard Stiegler, Richard Lanham, and Robert Coover. Housed at Google Video.

Syllabi

English 314: Technical Communications
An advanced composition course taught from Fall 2007 to Summer 2008 which used various multimodal projects to teach technical writing across media. The sample syllabus is taken from an accelerated Maymester course.

English 103: Accelerated Composition
A first-year composition course taught from Fall 2008 - Summer 2009 based upon a standard syllabus.

Marginalia

Figure, Discourse
A video ethnography for Steve Katz's RCID 880 studio focusing on a figure drawing session.

Jason Helms

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
Texas Christian University
317c Reed Hall
2800 South University Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76109
(817) 257-7082

jason.helms@tcu.edu