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

Readings

This list is under construction, with incomplete MLA bibliographic entries.

Baker, Mike,  Malika Khurana, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Riley Mellen, Natalie Reneau, Bedel Saget, Elena Shao, Anjali Singhvi and Charlie Smart. “Inside the Deadly Maui Inferno, Hour by Hour.” New York Times, November 1, 2023.

Bates, Kelley. “Racial Imposter Syndrome.” Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC), October 11, 2019.

Beasley, Lisa. “What is Code Switching?” Victory Gardens Theater. YouTube, uploaded Jan. 2020.

Bunn, Mike. “How to Read like a Writer.”

“Citation and Formatting Guides.” City Tech Library.

Cohen, Michael A. “The Changing Room Illusion.” YouTube.

Correal, Annie. “Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street.” The New York Times, 27 Jan 2017.

“Developing Strong Thesis Statements.” Purdue OWL.

“Double-Entry Reading Journals – TIP Sheet.” Butte College, . 

Franklin, Olivia. “OPINION: Weekly episodes are better than binge watching.” Indiana Daily Student, July 26, 2022.

Glaspell, Susan. Trifles. Project Gutenberg.

Glock, Sophia. “A Father, and a Childhood, Cloaked in Secrets.” New York Times, June 17, 2022.

“Greta Thunberg Has Given Up on Politicians.” New York Times, October 27, 2021.

“Guide to Developing a Research Question.” City Tech Library.

Hall, Carrie. “Discourse Communities.”

Hall, Rebecca. Passing. Netflix, 2021.

Harrison, Chelsea. ““College Students and Social Media.” Stylus, vol. 9, no.1, 2018.

Hassan, Mohammed. “Unlearning My Name.” YouTube.

Holly, Amy. “ENG121: Strategies for Composing Multimodal Texts.” Youtube, uploaded by Amy Holly, 2 Dec 2014.

Hughes Jazmine et al. The 1619 Project : New York Times Magazine August 18 2019. New York Times 2019.

“How to Write An OP-ED or Column.” Harvard Kennedy School Communications Program. 

Klass, Perri. “HERS/ She’s Your Basic LOL in NAD.” New York Times.

Lamott, Anne. “Shitty First Drafts.” Bird by Bird, .

Langston, Camille A. “How to use rhetoric to get what you want” TedEd. YouTube.

Larsen, Nella. Passing. Knopf, 1928. Hathi Trust.

“Lateral Reading.” Stanford History Education Group.

Lerman, Liz. “Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process.”

Malesic, Jonathan. “College Students Have Something to Say. It’s Just Not What You’d Expect.” New York Times, April 7, 2023.

“MLA Sample Works Cited Page.” Purdue OWL.

“Multimodal Texts.” YouTube, uploaded by Miss Alexis’ Classroom, 13 Oct 2014.

Neill, Conor. “What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion” TedEd. YouTube.

New York Times. “2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics.” New York Times, December 26, 2023.

“On Passing” Borrowed.

“Op-Ed Writing: Tips and Tricks.” The OpEd Project.

Padilla, Ricky. “Ethos, Pathos, & Logos.” Texas A&M University Writing Center. YouTube, June 12, 2020.

“Passing: Scene at the Academy.” Oscars. YouTube, February 7, 2022.

Poniewozik, James. “TV’s Battle of the Binge: Why the Wait Can Be Worth It.” New York Times, March 19, 2021.

Small, Zachary, and Rumsey Taylor. “How the Legend of Zelda Changed the Game” New York Times, May 4, 2023.

Staff of The Morning. “Innovative Storytelling from 2023.” New York Times, December 27, 2023.

Swales, John M. “Reflections On The Concept Of Discourse Community.” La Revue du GERAS ASP, vol. 69, 2016, pp. 7-19.

Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue.”

“Thesis Statements” Purdue OWL.

Walker, Rob. “Small Change.” The Art of Noticing. Substack, 142, August 30, 2023.

Washoe School District. “The Quote Sandwich.” Washoe School District.

Whippman, Ruth. “What We Are Not Teaching Boys About Being Human.” New York Times, August 6, 2021.

 

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