Welcome to City Tech and English 1121!
Please watch my welcome video here.
This is an advanced course in communication skills, including the expository essay and the research essay. This course further develops students’ reading and writing skills through literary and expository readings.
Note that our course is asynchronous, which means that we do not have regular meeting days/times. We will interact through discussion on our course site here, and I will have weekly office hours. If you can’t make it, don’t worry; you can always call or email me (mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu)
Below is our First Day Checklist, due 6/1. I will post our Week 1 assignment Tuesday 6/1.
Please be sure to read over the Syllabus and Course Schedule (under COURSE INFO). If you want to get started with the reading, everything is there. We are all in this together! I look forward to working with you.
- Register for OpenLab and join our course. If you’re new to the OpenLab, follow these instructions to create an account. Once you log in to your OpenLab account, follow these instructions to join this course. Please add a profile photo–it makes a positive difference in how we interact with each other. If you have any questions, email me. If you need OpenLab help: consult Help or contact the OpenLab Community Team
- Post your introduction paragraph.
- To write a new post, click the + sign at the top of the page, fill in the subject heading, add your info and click on ADD MEDIA to upload a photo of yourself or something you enjoy (pet/place in the world/ favorite food/ etc. You can elaborate on your chosen photo in your Intro. When you are done, to publish your post, scroll down and check off OUR COMMUNITY in the Category Sticky and Categories. Click Publish. Note: You can choose to link to a video intro of yourself, instead of writing, if you prefer.
- In your intro, include your pronouns , how you would like to be addressed, where you are from, where you reside now, your academic interests/ major, favorite author/writer and why, and anything else you’d like to include.
- Before next class, check back to read your classmates’ responses and reply to a few. What are some things we have in common? What are we learning from each other or encouraging each other to contemplate?
Hi Professor, It’s nice to meet you. I am confused about the reading assignments and the syllabus.
In the first reading assignment, (William Zinsser “On Writing Well” (pgs. 1-28) On Writing Well – Bryn Mawr College ( PDFDrive )) do you mean page 1-28 of the PDF or of the actual text (ending at chapter 5, a few pages before chapter 6 “Words” begins)?
Also, week 3 and week 4 say to read Hamlet and A Midsummernight’s Dream. Are we supposed to read both of the entire plays in a few days? You gave two links but they did not link to the plays so I was not sure.
Finally, there are a lot of readings in “Course Readings” that are not listed in the course syllabus or Weekly schedule. I just want to make sure that I am doing the correct readings. Thank you for explaining.
Hi Itay,
Thanks for your good questions. The syllabus is a work-in-progress for now as I hone it down for a 5 week summer course.
I am giving 1 week to read Hamlet (week 3), 1 week to read A Midsummer’s Night Dream (week 4), and 1 week (week 5) to work on a short writing project that relates one of the plays.
The course is intended to be the equivalent of a traditional semester and is “intensive” but
I have no problem changing course a bit if the reading of two plays proves too much.
I believe the links to the plays are now working.
Again, thanks for your excellent points — I’ll be sure to work with you to be successful in this course.
Prof. Noonan
Thank you!