SSchmerler’s Profile
Fine Arts; writing in digital and dynamic environments; cross-disciplinary communication and cooperation
Also Faculty at New York Academy of Art MFA Program; Columnist at Photograph Magazine; Contributing Writer to Art in America; MFA Pratt Institute.
My Courses
This first year composition class focuses on the reading, writing, and thinking skills that you’ll be able to transfer to other courses and to writing at home and in the workplace.
This class will make you a better communicator, period. Expect to get some amazing writing secrets, revealed. You will enter this class alone, and leave as a part of a vibrant and lively Writing Community. The work is rigorous, unusual, challenging — and fun. You won’t look at language the same way again. And your teachers — in all your other subjects in college — will notice your advanced approach to completing assignments. Short papers, long papers, writing standing up, writing outside, reading the work of great thinkers…all sorts of experiences await.
This class will make you a better communicator, period. In this course you will expand on the skills you acquired in Eng 1101. Expect to get some amazing writing secrets, revealed. You will enter this class alone, and leave as a part of a vibrant and lively Writing Community. The work is rigorous, unusual, challenging — and fun. You won’t look at language the same way again. And your teachers — in all your other subjects in college — will notice your advanced approach to completing assignments.
COMPOSITION for a DYNAMIC WORLD, FALL, 2020
The world isn’t static, and your writing shouldn’t be, either. In this course you will learn about the near-magical power of the written word, and the myriad places you can use that power. Do you want to persuade? Do you want to weigh in? Or do you just want to rule the world?! Expect to discuss new ways of learning in class, and to explore how digital pathways will connect you to a larger conversation — outside the classroom. So: put away the 5-paragraph essay you learned in high school. And welcome to the new world.
We make ideas concrete. In order to do that, we first accept that writing is a process — an act in which we will participate our whole life long. Music, art, electronics, engineering — you name it — whatever we pursue, we strive to find better ways to flow with the rules of written expression in order to achieve our dreams. We are determined to work hard in order to play well with Language. Let the games begin. What we will express this year has never been said before.
My Projects
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First-Year Writing Professional Development
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First Year Writing @ City Tech
FYW@City Tech is a program and a digital forum for sharing curricular and pedagogical resources related to teaching and learning about writing at City Tech. The First Year Writing Program @ City Tech (FYW@City Tech) offers professional and curricular support for faculty teaching First Year Writing Courses (ENG1101 and ENG1121) at the college. As a repository of materials related to best practices in teaching writing, the FYW@City Tech Web site is a place where FYW instructors and faculty across the college can learn more about teaching writing and archive their unique disciplinary resources related to teaching writing at a college of technology.
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