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As of Spring 2018, this site has been retired. It serves as an archive for previous years. To go to the current site, please visit https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/fyw/ –Robert Leston, Director First Year Writing, Fall 2018  

If a student misses the final exam for your FYW course, the department will be offering a makeup opportunity on January 9th at 2:30 pm. Please let Lily know if you have such students and she will give you more … Continue reading →

For an example of student writing in response to a specific assignment, please click here for Prof. Miller’s assignment on The Hero’s Journey.  Here is a student paper in response to the prompt, shared here with permission from the author.  For context, here … Continue reading →

Every FYW course at City Tech is automatically assigned a Bb site and students are automatically registered with Bb.  However, instructors must make their Bb site “available” to students each term for students to be able to access the Bb … Continue reading →

The textbooks for a composition course generally comprise a rhetoric, a collection of readings (see below), and an English handbook. Here is a brief overview of what is happening with FYW@CityTech textbooks.  If you have any suggestions regarding textbooks, please let us … Continue reading →

SUBJECT:     Final Exams, Final Grades, and eClass Folders DATE:            May 22, 2017 TO:                  First Year Writing (FYW) Faculty FROM:           Johannah … Continue reading →

Faculty are required to confidentially inform students of their midterm grades based on work submitted prior to April 3, 2017, which is the date when midterm grades are due (2017 City Tech Academic Calendar).  Although midterm grades cannot be reported in CUNYFirst, … Continue reading →

The 8th edition of the MLA Handbook, which was released in 2016, has been very thoughtfully revised to assist writers in understanding the research process and research documentation in a new media context. What is more, the Purdue OWL now has … Continue reading →