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!

Counseling Center

We offer personal, academic and career development support as well as crisis counseling for mental health needs. Although we do not offer in-depth psychotherapy, we can refer you to these and other services in the community. There are also free and immediate services and referrals through our side panel menu on this page.

Scheduling Testing Advisement Registration (STAR)

Scheduling Testing Advisement Registration (STAR) is a comprehensive advisement office that welcomes and offers enrollment support to new entering students and incoming transfer students. Academic advising is student centered and holistically supports students with advisement tools such as Degree Works and CUNYfirst to successfully progress in their desired City Tech major.

Center for Student Accessibility

The Center for Student Accessibility is the disabilities service provider at New York City College of Technology. The Center provides support to enrolled students who have documented permanent or temporary disabilities. The Center’s primary mission is to support the educational goals for enrolled students with disabilities through access, empowerment, resources, advocacy, collaboration and outreach throughout the College, the University and the community at large. The Center provides assistance in the areas of enrollment, academic advisement, tutoring, assistive technologies and testing accommodations.

Office of International Student Services (OISS)

At the Office of International Student Services (OISS) we promote diversity and highlight the importance, as well as the value of international and cross-cultural exchange. Additionally, OISS offers support throughout your academic journey at City Tech. Through counseling and advisement, we provide you with in depth assistance on F-1/J-1 status rules and regulations, compliance, immigration policy updates, employment options, personal matters, student life at the college and information about living in New York City.

First-Year Writing Resources 

Composition Skills

Here, you can find help with reading, grammar and other sentence-level issues (sentence mechanics), help getting started and finished with assignments (process), and help with study skills, finding out what it takes to be a college student and getting adjusted to college life (student success).

The Writing Center

The Writing Center is here to  help you at all stages of the writing process (from brainstorming to proofreading)!  Whether you are working on an academic essay, a research project, a scholarship application or a job cover letter– we are here to guide and assist you! The Writing Center also offers workshops in everything from organizing your paragraphs to making your writing more compelling. A workshop schedule is coming soon.

Works Cited for Course 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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