Hi There!

 

Office Hours for Spring 2025: 

  • Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM in Namm 511
  • Thursdays 4:00-5:00 PM in Namm 511 
  • And Zoom by appointment 

Office Hours for Spring 2025: 

forthcoming 

News: 

Please see our new page on Teaching Comp in the Age of AI. This resource is very much under construction; let us know if you have feedback or other resources to add! 

 

CITY OF ICE  is a new online publication at City Tech, celebrating our immigrant community amidst rising threats to its flourishing. For our May 2025 publication, we are soliciting non fiction prose, fiction, poetry, or other forms of media that express the hopes, fears, and dreams of those of us whose lives cross borders and barriers. The magazine is also soliciting shorter reflections from our immigrant community. Please click on the link above for more information about this new and important City Tech journal 


Last year, we did a survey of over 700 students in First Year Writing Classes here at City Tech and over 50% of them reported either procrastination or time management (or both) as potential barriers to graduation. With this in mind, we’ve created the “Procrastination Station” Website, which has readings and exercises for students to deal with these issues, as well as in-class activities and information on the antecedents of procrastination for our faculty. Click the photo above to check it out!  

Please also share the  first year writing skills website with your students. This site has countless assignments and resources to help students not only with sentence-level and paper-wide skills, but also the skills necessary for student success. Now updated with exercises to discuss Chat GPT in the classroom! 

 

We’ve updated the model courses to integrate the work on procrastination and Chat GPT. We’ve also integrated more work on critical thinking and we’ve set aside time for in-class conferencing. Remember that the model courses are not required, but they do fulfill the departmental learning outcomes (which are required) as well as the new unit guidelines. Feel free to contact the office of FYW if you have any questions about the model courses!  To access the FYW Courses and support materials, click the image above. 

 

In the summer of 2023, we started work on an English Department faculty handbook, which can be found online (or by clicking the image above). If you have anything you’d like to add or amend, or if you have any questions, please contact FYW directors or Dept Chair Suzanne Miller.