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Readings

Brown, Robbie. “21 Chump Street.” Audio blog post. What I Did For Love from This American Life. Chicago Public Media, 10 Feb. 2012, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/457/what-i-did-for-love.

Bunn, Mike. “How to read like a Writer.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Vol. 2, edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky, Parlor Press, 2011, 71-85

Campbell, Alexia. “30 Students Arrested in Palm Beach County Drug Sting.” Sun Sentinel [Fort Lauderdale, FL], 9 May 2011

Doerries, Bryan. “Antigone in Ferguson .” PBS House Seats, 3 Feb. 2019, https://www.pbs.org/video/house-seats-antigone-in-ferguson-vzpdg7/.

Gendler, Alex. “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave—Alex Gendler.” Youtube, uploaded by TED-Ed, 17 Mar. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltA&vl=de.

 Hyman, Jeremy S. and Lynn F. Jacobs. “8 More Research Tips for College Students.” U.S. News & World Report, 17 Feb. 2010, https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/professors-guide/2010/02/17/8-more-research-tips-for-college-students. Accessed 25 Aug. 2020.  

Jiang, Anita. “The Memory of My Grandmother.” City Tech Writer, vol. 10, 2015, pp. 3-4, https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/english/docs/ctw10.pdf. Accessed 26 Aug. 2020

Lamott, Anne. “Shitty First Drafts.” Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers. Ed. by Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. 9th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005: 93-96. 

Malcolm X. “Learning to Read.” Gordon College Division of Humanities, https://ptfaculty.gordonstate.edu/jmallory/index_files/page0096.htm. Accessed 26 Aug. 2020

Miranda, Lin-Manuel. “21 Chump Street” by Lin-Manuel Miranda—This American Life—Live at BAM.” Youtube, uploaded by This American Life, 9 Jan. 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBGa6-uOhc.

Morrison, Toni. “The Reader as Artist.” O, The Oprah Magazine, Jul. 2006, https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/toni-morrison-on-reading/all. Accessed 25 Aug. 2020.

Olivarez, José. “Maybe I Could Save Myself By Writing.” Gen, 12 Sep. 2018. Medium, https://gen.medium.com/young-chicago-authors-maybe-i-could-save-myself-by-writing-poetry-latinx-teen-79752108d0b5.  

Online Discussions: Tips for Students.” Centre for Teaching Excellence, 23 Mar. 2020, uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-resources/teaching-tips/developing-assignments/blended-learning/online-discussions-tips-students.

Plato. “Selections from Plato’s Republic.” Apology trans. G.M.A. Grube. In Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: from Thales to Aristotle, 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000.

Ramsey, Michael, “The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory in Clay.” Youtube, uploaded by bullheadent, 18 Apr. 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM.

Smyth, Phil. “Understanding Genre Awareness.” Youtube, uploaded by CAES HKU, 3 Mar. 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daut5e0kWBo

Sophocles. Antigone. Translated by Wm. Blake Tyrell, Michigan State University, 1997.

Student Tips for Online Learning Success.North Hennepin Community College, www.nhcc.edu/student-resources/online-learning-d2l/tips-for-online-learning-success.

Temple, Emily. “‘You Don’t Know Anything.’ And Other Writing Advice from Toni Morrison.” Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2019, https://lithub.com/you-dont-know-anything-and-other-writing-advice-from-toni-morrison/. 

 

 

 

 

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