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Sample MLA Bibliographic Guidelines by Genre/Medium

For those of you who have questions about how to format your bibliographic citations, feel free to use this “cheat sheet.”  For those who are interested in reading more about MLA bibliographic format, please see the Purdue OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/ MLA … Continue reading

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Research Project Update

Dear Students, I just wanted to check in with you regarding the Research Projects in order to offer some guidance and to encourage those of you working on similar topics to stay in touch regarding research resources. Here is a … Continue reading

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Post-Hurricaine Sandy Support @ City Tech

If you have been displaced by Hurricane Sandy, please consider visiting the Counseling Office (Namm 108) – http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/students/counseling/.   Not only are they advising students about how to handle the rest of the semester, but there are applications there for emergency … Continue reading

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Sharing/Distributing Personal Essays

Dear Students, I have been so impressed with the personal essays that you have written that I would like to figure out a way to allow you to share these with one another.  Do you think Open Lab is the … Continue reading

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NYC and Climate Change Readings

Dear Students, I’ve compiled some readings on the recent storm, as well as some really interesting NYC and NYState reports on Climate Change.  They are below.   NYC and Climate Change Readings Prepared by Johannah Rodgers for NYCCT/CUNY Updated November … Continue reading

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Responses and Questions to Nicholas Carr’s Article

Feel free to post any responses to or questions about Carr’s article here.

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Guidelines for Writing E-Mails

When writing e-mails–as opposed to text messages–you generally want to include a salutation.  For example, in writing an e-mail to me, you would want to start with:  “Dear Professor Rodgers.”  Also, please include some context for the correspondence we are … Continue reading

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Welcome to Week 5!

Dear Students, Thanks again for all of your work and your very thoughtful blog posts.  I’m looking forward to reading and responding to your Week 3 and Week 4 assignments.  For Week 5, we will begin brainstorming and drafting our … Continue reading

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Photographable Moment 1

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Unphotographable

This is a picture I did not take of a young girl kneeling over a dead bird in front of a laundromat on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn.  The bird was this amazing green color, kind of a tropical emerald … Continue reading

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