Fall 2017 FYLC Essay 2 Planning Sheet
Author: Jennifer Sears (Page 5 of 7)
Your next essay must incorporate elements of MLA formatting. Here is a quick overview of what is required this time around:
General Paper Format
- One inch margins
- Double-spaced
- Font: 12 pt Times New Roman or another standard font
- Heading double-spaced on the upper left corner of the first page:
First Page Information
- Your name
- Your instructor’s name
- Course name
- Date
Page Numbers
- Header (upper right hand corner)
- Your last name and Page number
Title of Your Essay
- Centered above your text (no bold or italic fonts and no quotation marks)
- Make your title original. Avoid single word titles or those such as Cause and Effect or Essay 2.
Refer to these online resources from the Purdue University On-LineWriting Lab:
- Overview of MLA general paper format including a sample if you scroll down to the bottom: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/24/
- A detailed visual for you to see what your paper should look like along with very detailed instructions:Â https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/
- Overview of MLA general paper format including a sample if you scroll down to the bottom: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/24/
- A detailed visual for you to see what your paper should look like along with very detailed instructions:Â https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/
Today, Cynthia Bink from Counseling Services spoke about the many services available through the College’s Counseling Center, including individual counseling and workshops available to facilitate better adjustment to college life. We spoke most, however, about the Career Assessment tools available online at in their offices. In addition to leaving handouts, you were all guided to the online career assessment tool Sigi3. You can go to the link below and click on Sigi3. If you did not get the passcode in class, email me to get this. (I can’t post it online.)
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/counseling/selecting-area-study.aspx
As instructed in class, as you plan and do personal research for Essay 2, you will be required to complete the surveys on SIGI that evaluate four aspects of your interests and values.
- Under the category “Surveys” are four categories: Values, Interests, Personality, and Skills.
- In the first three categories, there are three activities: Pairs, Cards, and Quick Picks. Do all of these!
- As you take the assessments (remember they are not “tests”), write down a few notes to help you remember the experience of taking them.
After you have completed these activities look at the career recommendations suggested in your results and consider how your current career and life goals relate or don’t relate to these assessments. Do you agree with the results you got? Do you feel like you need to reassess? If you remember your “Holland Code,” what do you know from reflecting on that?
In today’s discussion,  we talked about how personal values can affect career choices. We’ve also discussed how family members have opinions that need to be considered but ultimately your college career is your own and you should approach it that way.
We are using this article by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel for work on Essay 2. As you reflect on this and other class resources (the career assessment surveys and the goal setting exercises in The Companion) consider what getting a college degree means? Are there benefits beyond getting a better job? Douglas-Gabriel quotes Anthony Carnevale who states: “It is clear in the minds of most Americans that the enduring mission for colleges is to promote human flourishing, not just to make foot soldiers for capitalism.” What does this mean?
In class today, we looked at how a student essay–one that was already strong and had the pieces of the essay already in place–could be made clearer with more examples. One point made is that the balance of your ideas and the integrated text is important! Your ideas should dominate the essay. Do not overquote or rely too much on the ideas of your sources. Tell the reader what you know.
THE FIX-FYLC Essay 1 Fall 2017For this assignment, you will write about your first weeks at City Tech and post them on the OpenLab site on our FYLC group page. (Yes….yet another project you have to join). This project page is public to OpenLab members but will not be visible to people outside of the Open Lab community. Here is the link to the task you must complete:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/fylc/2017/07/25/our-stories-becoming-a-college-student/
Here is the assignment but do not post here. Post on the FYLC site:
From First Year Learning Communities:
“We invite you to tell a story about your first few weeks at City Tech. Research has shown that first-semester students often worry about their transition in to college and how eventually students become comfortable and find a community of people with whom they are close and feel they belong.
Please describe in a short story how you have experienced your first few weeks at City Tech. Aim to write 300-500 words and be sure to illustrate your post with examples from your own experiences in classes, seminars, lectures, study groups, and labs. What happened? How did you and others involved think and feel? How did it turn out?
We hope this process will help you think about your transition experience. Once you have finished writing please take time to read and comment on at least two of your peer’s stories.
To create your first post please click the plus (+) sign at the top of the FYLC page!
Once you have finished writing your post please select your FYLC faculty member as a category.
Then feel free to look around and read and comment on your peers’ writing!
(If you are looking to read stories from one specific FYLC select a faculty “category” at the bottom of the page)
Hi All,
I mentioned this in some of my classes but wanted to get the word out to all. The Brooklyn Book Festival is THIS coming Sunday. It’s a great event right by our school (though City Tech is not involved in the planning) and it’s free. There is a full day of readings and discussions and there are lots of books for sale on the green at Borough Hall. The Festival and all events that take place are free admission. Look through the roster to see if anything interests you!
The roster of events;
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/events
The website of the full Book Festival:
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/
