Below please find links and support materials to help you succeed in this course and beyond. If you don’t find the resources you’re looking for, just ask!

First-Year Writing Resources 

Composition Skills – Support for Students: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/fywskills/

Readings

Barnett, Randy E. “The Declaration of Independence annotated.” The Washington Post, 4 July 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/07/04/the-declaration-of-independence-annotated/.

Baldwin, James. “A Talk to Teachers.” Saint Paul Public Schools, https://www.spps.org/cms/lib010/MN01910242/Centricity/Domain/125/baldwin_atalktoteachers_1_2.pdf

Bunn, Mike. “How to Read Like a Writer.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Vol. 2, edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky, Parlor Press, 2011, 71-85

“Citation and Formatting Guides.” City Tech Library, https://libguides.citytech.cuny.edu/citations/MLA

“Commas.” Lindsey Wilson College Writing Center, https://www.lindsey.edu/academics/img/writing-center-pdfs/commas.pdf. 

“Comma Splice.” YouTube, uploaded by tamuwritingcenter, 2 Mar 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNCHbJruutY.

“Declaration of Independence: A Transcription.” National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript.

De Witte, Melissa. “When Thomas Jefferson penned ‘all men are created equal,’ he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar.” Stanford News, 1 July 2020, https://news.stanford.edu/2020/07/01/meaning-declaration-independence-changed-time/. 

Double-Entry Reading Journals – TIP Sheet. Butte College, www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/readingstrategies/double_entry.html. 

Douglass, Frederick. “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Chapter VII.” Teaching American History, 1845, teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-an-american-slave-chapter-vii/. 

Erdrich, Louise. “Louise Erdrich On Her Personal Connection To Native Peoples’ ‘Fight For Survival.’” Fresh Air, by Dave Davies, NPR, 2 Mar. 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/812085201/louise-erdrich-on-her-personal-connection-to-native-peoples-fight-for-survival

Garcia, Maria Elena. “My Full Time Job for 2020 Has Been Examining Selena’s Life & Legacy. I’m Also a Lifelong Fan. I’ve Read Everything. Seen All The Archives. Spent Time w Her Dad & Sister. I’m Going to Unpack Why so Many Ppl Feel Betrayed by #SelenaNetflix #Selenatheseries and Why It Matters.” Twitter, Twitter, 6 Dec. 2020, twitter.com/nopalitamami/status/1335696658387046402?s=11.

Gendler, Alex. “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave—Alex Gendler.” Youtube, uploaded by TED-Ed, 17 Mar. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltA&vl=de.

“Guide to Developing a Research Question.” City Tech Library, https://libguides.citytech.cuny.edu/intro/research-question

Hall, Carrie. “Quotation Handout,” https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/fyw-pedagogy/files/2021/01/Quote-Sandwich-.pdf

—. “What’s a Paragraph?” https://www.canva.com/design/DAEIkHc2Se4/I6IlbC-mLi16rmBOJ9WxbA/view?utm_content=DAEIkHc2Se4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

—.  “What Is Research?” https://www.canva.com/design/DAEJ8Kx2CTU/HPVideryK-Ib2RvamjacdQ/view?utm_content=DAEJ8Kx2CTU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

Jang, Anita. “The Memory of My Grandmother.” City Tech Writer, vol. 10, 2015, pp. 3-4, https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/english/docs/ctw10.pdf. Accessed 26 Aug. 2020.

Lamott, Anne. “Shitty First Drafts.” Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers. Ed. by Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. 9th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005: 93-96. 

Malcolm X. “Learning to Read.” Gordon College Division of Humanities, https://ptfaculty.gordonstate.edu/jmallory/index_files/page0096.htm. Accessed 26 Aug. 2020.

Murray, Donald M. “The Maker’s Eye: Revisiong Your Own Manuscripts, https://robertnazar.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/themakerseye.pdf “

“NPR Reads The Declaration of Independence.” Morning Edition. NPR, WNYC, New York City, 3 Jul. 2020.

Olivarez, José. “Maybe I Could Save Myself By Writing.” Gen, 12 Sep. 2018. Medium, https://gen.medium.com/young-chicago-authors-maybe-i-could-save-myself-by-writing-poetry-latinx-teen-79752108d0b5.  

Porter, Rep. Katie. “No Matter How We Look at the Data—by Race, by Sector, by Income—It’s Clear the Burden of the Pandemic Is Falling Hardest on Women. Today, Our Office Released a Report Detailing How Decades of Progress Could Be Erased Unless We Take Action. (THREAD) Https://T.co/zV0BJl6TlC.” Twitter, Twitter, 8 Dec. 2020, twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1336390246070685698?s=20.

Plato. “Selections from Plato’s Republic,” excerpted by Freeman, Tim, “Introduction to

Philosophy – Tfreeman.net,” https://tfreeman.net/resources/Phil-100/The-Republic.pdf

Purdue Writing Lab. “Purdue OWL // Purdue Writing Lab.” Purdue Online Writing Lab, owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html.

Sidner, Sara. “Native American elder Nathan Phillips, in his own words.” CNN, contributed to by Eliott C. McLaughlin, 12 Mar. 2019,  https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/us/nathan-phillips-maga-teens-interview/index.html. 

Smyth, Phil. “Understanding Genre Awareness.” Youtube, uploaded by CAES HKU, 3 Mar. 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltA&vl=de.

Washoe School District. “The Quote Sandwich.” Washoe School District. https://www.washoeschools.net/cms/lib/NV01912265/Centricity/Domain/253/Social%20Studies/The%20Quote%20Sandwich.pdf

Woodson, Jacqueline. “‘What Reading Slowly Taught Me About Writing.’” TedTalk, 12 Sept. 2019,  www.ted.com/talks/jacqueline_woodson_what_reading_slowly_taught_me_about_writing?language=en#t-6775.

“Writing an Annotated Bibliography.” City Tech Library, https://libguides.citytech.cuny.edu/citations/writing.

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