ENG1710 Intro to Language and Technology, SP2019

After today’s class, write at least 250 words summarizing your reading of Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and our discussion of it during class. Post your response as a comment made to this blog post.

Some folks are falling behind with their after class writing assignments. Now’s the time to catch them up!

These are some links that we will discuss in class:

Supreme Court Copyright Ruling

How to Be a Better Listener

Lynn Randolph’s Cyborg, oil on masonite, 10″ x 7″

After today’s class, write at least 250 words summarizing your reading and our lecture on Jacques Derrida’s “Linguistics and Grammatology.” Please include some background on Derrida and the translator of his article into English, Gayatri Spivak. Some topics covered include issues of translation, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Logocentrism, différance, and deconstruction.

After today’s class, write at least 250 words summarizing your reading of Bruce Mazlish’s “The Fourth Discontinuity” and our discussion of it during lecture. Copy-and-paste your writing into a comment made to this blog post. As you write today’s assignment and those that follow, please include connections that you might make to things that you’ve encountered in your own experiences and education. Mazlish discusses the work of a number of important intellectual figures, which might relate to other things that you’re interested in or know about. Write about those connections. N.B. Connecting new information to things that you already know strengthens your memory of the new information and it begins turning information into actionable knowledge and leads the way to insightful wisdom.

Some links related to today’s lesson:

Professor Emeritus Bruce Mazlish Obituary, http://news.mit.edu/2016/professor-emeritus-bruce-mazlish-dies-1206

Arnold J. Toynbee, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee

DIKW pyramid, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid

After today’s class, write at least 250 words summarizing your reading of Walter Ong’s “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought” and our discussion about the reading. Post your summary as a comment made to this blog post.

His obituary in the New York Times is here.

The City Tech Center for Student Accessibility is hosting a Self-Advocacy Workshop for students on Thursday, February 28 between 12:45pm and 2:15pm in Room L-237. It will cover topics including: “How to speak up for yourself, communicate better with professors, and state what you need, even if you feel shy.” Bonus: Refreshments will be provided. This workshop is highly recommended, especially for folks who might tend to have a quiet demeanor or who don’t speak with their instructors regularly. The things that you learn in this workshop will carry over into other aspects of your life including home and the workplace.

After today’s class, write at least 250 words summarizing your reading of Salikoko Mufwene‘s “Language as Technology: Some Questions that Evolutionary Linguistics Should Address” and our discussion of it during class. Copy-and-paste your writing into a comment made to this blog post before our next class.

As a part of your writing, include a sentence or two explaining what you think language is: a natural ability of the human animal or a technology made by human beings to improve communication? Remember to justify your response. For example, “I believe Victoria Fromkin is correct in saying that language is a natural ability, because <your justification>,” or “I am convinced by Salikoko Mufwene’s argument that language is a technology, because <your justification>.”

This is a great opportunity for work experience, earning money, and giving back with community service. Details are below:

CUNY Service Corps

Work in Non-Profit and Government Agencies

Recruitment for Fall 2019 to Spring 2020

Applications are open Feb. 8-Mar. 24, 2019.

Please email your resume and cover letter to ​servicecorps.citytech@gmail.com​ ​today!

Please visit us at L114 to learn more!

City Tech Fall Recruitment Flyer 2019-2020

Our own James Mitchell is leading three workshops on using Linkedin.com for City Tech’s Professional Development Center. As future professionals in technical fields, you need a LinkedIn.com account and you need to use it and update it as a part of your on-going professionalization and networking. Details on the workshops are below:

Dates: 02/21, 03/14, & 03/21.
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Location: Vorhees Building, V-219

RSVP through City Tech Connect linked on this page.

LAF Competition

Enter your work into the competition for a chance at a writing award. Winning one of these gives you actual evidence for your resume that you are a good writer. Seek out other contests like this.

N E W Y O R K C I T Y C O L L E G E O F T E C H N O L O G Y
38th Annual Literary Arts Festival
Writing Competition
Entry Guidelines
Submit your work at the City Tech Literary
Arts Festival OpenLab website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/literaryartsfestival/submission-guidelines/
• Do not include your name in the
submission attachment.
• Attach your entry as a Word document.
For more information, please contact:
CityTechLAF@gmail.com
Competition winners receive cash prizes
and a possible Festival reading.
Award Categories
• Adolphus Lee Poetry Award:
1 poem may be submitted
• Charles Matusik Fiction Award:
1 short story, not to exceed 3000 words
• Kay-Hirsch Literary Criticism Award:
1 textual analysis
• Lou Rivers Drama Award:
1 one-act play, not to exceed 3000 words
• Michele Forsten Advocacy Award:
For writing in any genre that advocates the
importance of equal rights, not to exceed
1500 words
• Walter-Scanlon Creative
Non-Fiction Award:
Essay/article/research paper/memoir
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2019