Week 1: Course Overview & Annotating Texts
For Monday, 8/28
I look forward to meeting you on Monday 8/28 and getting started with our semester! Here is our class information:
- Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:40 p.m.
- Room: Namm 619
For Wednesday, 8/30
Text
- Read the article “How to Read like a Writer” by Mike Bunn
- Reading/Writing Resource Essay: “Double-Entry Reading Journals” (Butte College). Note: you do not need to bring or read this text. We will use it during class.
Write
- Annotate a printed out or downloaded version of Mike Bunn’s essay.
- Come to class with your annotated text and prepared to use your annotations in a variety of discussion and writing activities.
Other to-do items
- Sign up for OpenLab and join our class site. If you encounter problems, please email me at RGarcia@citytech.cuny.edu.
- Begin to familiarize yourself with the class site: be sure to read the introduction to the course, look over the syllabus, and open and review all course tabs/sections.
- Sign up for your free subscription to The New York Times: https://library.citytech.cuny.edu/help/how/nytimes.php
- City Tech resources: the library, computer labs, the Writing Center, OpenLab resources (The OpenLab for Students)
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