Agenda: Week 4

Week 4: Drafting the Education Narrative

Hi class! The agenda for next week is below. But first, here are links for the sites we looked at in class:

• The “Quotation Handout” by Carrie Hall

• City Tech Library’s “Citation and Formatting Guide”
• The Purdue OWL page on MLA Formatting
• EasyBib for generating citations

Finally, remember that City Tech’s Writing Center is a resource for all stages of the writing process: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/ctwritingcenter/

For Monday, 9/18

Texts

• Read the article “I Am Being Pushed Out of One of the Last Public Squares, the Library” by Emily St. James

Write

• Finish the essay planning worksheet you started in class.
• Annotate a printed out or downloaded version of  “I Am Being Pushed Out of One of the Last Public Squares, the Library”
• Come prepared to draft Unit 1 during class.

***For this class, we will meet in the computer lab in room G604, which is inside G600.

For Wednesday, 9/20

Texts

• Read the personal narrative “Shitty First Drafts”

Write

• Finish, print, and bring to class your draft of Unit 1. We will be peer reviewing and working on the drafts.
• If you feel comfortable doing so, bring a device for working on your narr

Resources for working on your drafts: 

• City Tech Computer Labs (please visit http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/index.html for current computer lab hours).
  • G600 General Open Lab 
  • G603 & G604 Labs 
  • G606 ePortfolio Lab 
  • G608 MAC Open Lab
  • V217 High Tech Open Lab
• City Tech Library Computer Lab: https://library.citytech.cuny.edu/services/technology/index.php
• City Tech Writing Center