We will look at the following resources in class:
General tips for conducting productive interviews:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/559/04/
Tips for writing better interview questions:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/559/06/
These resources from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) offer tips for ethical interviewing and tips for setting up and starting your interviews. We will also practice interviewing skills in class!
Here is our course link about activating your New York Times subscription. You must use your City Tech email address. This is a free service to our students. Do not pay for a subscription; if you hit a pay wall, it means you have not gone through the activation properly.
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/brain-on-the-page-fall-2017/first-semester-information/how-to-activate-your-nyt-subscription/
Purdue OWL’s section on the “Argument Paper” includes this guideline for the refutation of the opposing view, which this site calls the “rebuttal section.” We will use this process the debate and think about how to effectively process the ideas that arose into writing.
“The Rebuttal Section” https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/724/03/
This resource is an index to several resources about writing arguments available on Purdue OWL.
Argument Papers:https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/724/1/
Two sections we will focus on in class are:
Organizing Your Argument and Using Rhetorical Strategies for Persuasion
As was mentioned in class, you will have a reading quiz on Thursday, Oct. 5. All of the Resources are available online on our Open Lab site on the Resources Page:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/brain-on-the-page-fall-2017/course-resources-schedule/
The study questions:
These two short videos from The Big Think were recorded with Dr. Sharon Zukin, a professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center:
“Will Gentrification Ever End?”
and
“The Slippery Ethics of Gentrifying”
This TED Talk by Dr. Stacey Sutton, a professor at Columbia University, specifically identifies gentrification as a “social justice problem” in New York City and offers ideas for ways to address the issues that arise.
“What We Don’t Understand about Gentrification” by Stacey Sutton on TedTalks.
An opposing view on gentrification: This opinion piece by Lance Freeman suggests “myths” about gentrification.
“Five Myths about Gentrification” by Lance Freeman Washington Post
This article from the City Lab explores the wage gap within gentrifying neighborhoods across “Gotham” or New York City.
“The Gentrification of Gotham”
https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/04/the-gentrification-of-gotham/524694/
This Washington Post article, “Still Questioning Whether College is Worth It? Read This,” was published in July 2016. We will discuss this in class and consider Danielle Douglas-Gabriel’s ideas as you are working on Essay 2, which asks you to think critically about your values and life choices and the degree you are currently completing.
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