This concise New York Times article/blog post offers tips on how to do well in college. These include attendance, socializing, and getting to know your professors.
“Tip Sheet: How to Succeed in College”Â
This ENG1101 course introduces concepts of critical writing and thinking along with skills integral to constructing and documenting a college-level essay. As a First Year Learning Community, we will pair with Psychology 1101 to explore the emotional impact of the first year college transition and consider ways to identify and deal with new stressors.
This concise New York Times article/blog post offers tips on how to do well in college. These include attendance, socializing, and getting to know your professors.
“Tip Sheet: How to Succeed in College”Â
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”:Â https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/01/
Second, an overview of the Expository essay and the classic “five part” essay: “Expository Essays”:Â 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” :Â https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/3/
Fourth, an overview of the Narrative Essay, a technique we will also discuss: “Narrative Essays”:Â 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”:Â https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/5/
This general essay offers advice for passing freshman composition; the advice offered could also be used for many other courses you take this semester:
https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/professors-guide/2010/01/19/0120guideblog
This resource offers advice to students taking freshman composition, a standard course requirement for students all over the country.
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.
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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/
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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:Â http://outlook.com/mail.citytech.cuny.edu
Username:Â Firstname.Lastname@mail.citytech.cuny.edu
Password:Â 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!
Verb Tenses are not easy! This online source describe it fairly well:
https://www.easypacelearning.com/all-lessons/grammar/1198-12-verb-tenses-table-learning-english-grammar-tenses
Here also is a version I’ve made:
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