How to Activate Your New York Times Subscription with Your City Tech Email

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The information below is from the City Tech Library website.  Please activate  your subscription!

New York Times Digital Online Access

Sign Up For Access

  1. Go to nytimes.com/passes.
  2. Click on Register to create a NYTimes.com account using your City Tech email address.
  3. At the bottom of the Welcome page, click Continue.
  4. You will then see a Check Your Email message. Look for a Confirm Your Email Address message, which should arrive to your City Tech email within 15 minutes. If you do not get a confirmation email, check your spam filter. If you still do not receive it, send an email from your City Tech email account to edu@nytimes.com.
  5. Click on the link in the confirmation email to activate your subscription.
  6. Once you’ve created an account, always go directly to nytimes.com. Access will simply require your City Tech New York Times login. You will see your subscription as being for “one year,” although it will be renewed as the subscription continues.

Need additional help?

Already a NY Times subscriber?

  • If you have an annual subscription to the New York Times with your City Tech email address, you can cancel it and receive a refund. If you already have a monthly subscription, the New York Times will not issue a refund for that month if you choose to cancel the individual subscription.
  • If you wish to continue your own access (for example, If you get the print edition with online access), but also want to use the City Tech version, we suggest you move your original subscription to a personal email address.
  • If you need more help, contact NYT customer service at 1-800-698-4637, or if you subscribed through iTunes, follow the instructions here.

Limits to content:

      • Tablets including iPads. The tablet-friendly version of the New York Times can be accessed via your tablet’s browser.

articles published before 1980 (note that we have full access to

New York Times – Historical

    , with digitally reproduced pages from every issue starting in 1851).

  • Premium Crosswords and the NY Times Crosswords apps
  • e-reader editions

Resource 4: “Essay Writing”: Expository, Narrative, Descriptive, and Persuasive/Argumentative Essays-Purdue OWL

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This resource is actually 5 separate resources but we will look at them all as one.

The first is an overview of essay writing: “Essay Writing”: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/01/

Second, an overview of the Expository essay and the classic “five part” essay: “Expository Essays”: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/02/

Third, an overview of the Descriptive Essay, a technique we will discuss in this class: “Descriptive Essays” : https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/3/

Fourth, an overview of the Narrative Essay, a technique we will also discuss: “Narrative Essays”: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/4/

And finally, an overview of argumentative or persuasive techniques, which we will also discuss in this class: “Argumentative Essays”: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/5/

Resource 1: “What is Academic Writing?” Writing Spaces, Vol. 2

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In “What is Academic Writing?”, L. Lennie Irvin writes directly to new college students and claims, “Your success with academic writing depends upon how well you understand what you are doing as you write and then how you approach the writing task.” She focuses on ways to do both and sets up a good overview of what college students learn in composition courses and what skills you can hope to gain. This essay appeared in the OER text Writing Spaces, Vol. 2.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License and is subject to the Writing Spaces’ Terms of Use. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. To view the Writing Spaces’ Terms of Use, visit http://writingspaces. org/terms-of-use.

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How to Set Up Your CityTech Email Account

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Your City Tech email is how the College will communicate with you throughout your student years, so it is important to set your account up! If you have not already done so, try these instructions from City Tech’s website.

Go to the “Frequently Asked Questions” and look for Student Email.

Current Students-Frequently Asked Questions

This page states:
“In order to access your email account, go to: http://outlook.com/mail.citytech.cuny.edu
Username: Firstname.Lastname@mail.citytech.cuny.edu
Password: It’s your date of birth in a six digit format MMDDYY and the last four digits of your EMPLID. For example: If your date of birth is 01/06/86 and the last four digits of your EMPLID is 1234, then your password is 0106861234 ( no spaces OR dashes)

If this does not work, go to the Atrium Learning Center or the New Student Center on the first floor of the Atrium Building.

Good luck!

How to Set Up Your City Tech OpenLab Account

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Our class OpenLab site will serve several purposes during the semester.  The syllabus will be available for you to refer to at any time if you don’t have your paper copy handy. All course materials will be linked here, including readings, videos, assignments, and occasional messages reminding you of due dates or any class changes. You will also be expected to post two OpenLab assignments on your own.

Sign up for OpenLab with your City Tech student email. If you are used to working with WordPress or generally tech-savvy,  you will be able to quickly set up your account by using the instructions on the first page: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu.

A more lengthy tutorial is available here:
 https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/blog/help/signing-up-on-the-openlab/

Open Lab Assignment #1: Introduce Yourself! -DUE Sept. 6

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In class we’ve talked about how one of the challenges of acclimating to college is making friends. One reason this is challenging is that making friends requires you to reveal just a little about yourself.

For our class, your first post on our class OpenLab site will be your introduction to our class.

COMBO OpenLab Post 1: Due Sept. 6 (midnight)

For this assignment, write a short paragraph that responds the following questions. Remember these will be posted for our class and the OpenLab community to see!

  1. What is your current career interest and/or major? And/or: how did you find out about City Tech and/or what made you decide to start your college career here?
  2. What is the biggest adjustment you’ve had to make since entering City Tech? If you are a second semester student, this could be an adjustment you had to make last semester.
  3. What keeps you centered in the midst of the many changes you are going through as a student? (Do you think about the degree you are getting? How getting an education might help you or your family? About getting closer to a dream you’ve always had? Or is there some kind of (healthy!) hobby that keeps you on track, such as athletics, art, music, a social or community group?
  4. What is one thing you have already learned about yourself in the midst of these changes? (Be generous with yourself!)

More Directions:

  • Post this on our Open Lab site with a photo that best represents you and/or your something you referenced in your post.
  • Remember: you are being graded on this! You will be assessed on: finishing the assignment on time, answering all of the four questions; posting an image with your post.
  • If you can’t figure out how to post on the site, send the paragraph to me along with a jpeg photo attachment. I will post the information on OpenLab. (Please don’t photos in another format.)
  • Regarding privacy, you can use your Open Lab handle if you are not comfortable using your full name on the website. Also, your picture can be of an object (for example, your response to question 2) if you do not want to post a picture of yourself.
  • Have fun with this assignment! We might read a few posts out loud in class if time permits.