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Category Archives: Writing Lab Hour Assignments/Activities
2017 City Tech Science Fiction Symposium
City Tech is honored to be welcoming Samuel Delany as the keynote speaker for the 2017 City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, which will be taking place on December 6 from 9am to 6pm in N119. As many are aware, Mr. Delany is … Continue reading
Structuring and Facilitating Group Work in FYW Courses
Structuring and Facilitating Group Work Group work can be a powerful learning tool, but the teams need to be facilitated correctly. If teams don’t function well, they can be a source of frustration and anxiety for students and instructors. Below are … Continue reading
City Tech Library Resources for FYW Research Projects
The City Tech Library has recently centralized their Research Process Tutorials. You can access these tutorials here: https://library.citytech.cuny.edu/help/tutorials/index.php A Guide for Understanding and Writing an Annotated Bibliography is also available: http://libguides.citytech.cuny.edu/AnnotatedBibliography
Engaging With Current Events in 2017 in FYW Courses: Some Suggestions and Resources
The FYW@City Tech program encourages you to talk to your students about current issues and, if possible, integrate them and student responses to them into your course. If anything, the “turbulent” state of the socio-political and economic reality in the U.S. … Continue reading
What Is Academic Writing?
While this is a question that many writing instructors may feel could never be satisfactorily answered, it is nevertheless a question that students often ask. To help students gain some understanding of this question and the complexities involved in answering … Continue reading
Week 1 Update, Fall, 2017: Developing a Shared Framework for Thinking and Talking About College Writing at City Tech
The development and adoption of a shared language for thinking and talking about college writing is one of the major aims of every FYW course. To this end, FYW@CityTech has developed one framework for thinking and talking about college writing … Continue reading
FYW OpenAccess FIRST WEEK READINGS
FYW OpenAccess FIRST WEEK READINGS “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie [reading questions] [as of Fall, 2017 the Open Access edition of this essay is no longer available] “City Limits” by Colson Whitehead “Active Reading” by Brogan Sullivan “Teaching to the … Continue reading
Assisting Students in Preparing for FYW Final Exams
To assist students enrolled in your ENG1101 and ENG1121 courses in preparing for the final exam, FYW@City Tech has compiled the following resources. Please feel free to share these with your students and to encourage them to complete a practice exam and … Continue reading
Assisting Students in Preparing for the ENG1101 Final Exam
To assist students enrolled in your ENG1101 courses in preparing for the final exam, FYW@City Tech has compiled the following resources. Please feel free to share these with your students and encourage them to take a sample exam and discuss the … Continue reading
Suggested Spring 2017 ENG1101 Reading: “It’s Not Climate Change–It’s Everything Change” by Margaret Atwood
In 2009, Margaret Atwood published an article on the topic of “peak oil” in the German newspaper Die Zeit. The article was entitled “The Future Without Oil.” In 2015, Atwood revisited the topic, and her article, by writing about both. … Continue reading
