Readings and Videos (this is a resource page where you can find links for assigned readings*)

The Process of Reading and Writing

Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers (chapters 2 and 3). Oxford University Press, 1973. https://talkcurriculum.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/elbow-p-1973-writing-without-teachers-pp-12e28093751.pdf

Bunn, Mike. “How to Read Like a Writer.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, 2011. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces2/bunn–how-to-read.pdf

Carillo, Ellen C. “Navigating This Perfect Storm: Teaching Critical Reading in the Face of the Common Core State Standards, Fake News, and Google.” Pedagogy 1 January 2019; 19 (1): 135–159. https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/blaineng1101regularfa2020/files/2020/08/carillo-navigating-the-storm.pdf

Unit 1 – Language Awareness/Discourse

Keller, Helen. “I Go Adventuring.” https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Keller_Adventuring.pdf

Keller, Helen, Letter From the Top of the Empire State Building: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/03/05/the-empire-state-building/

Sante, Luc: “Living in Tongues.” New York Times Magazine, May 5, 1996.  https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/magazine/living-in-tongues.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Phelan, Hayley. “…. ‘Zhuzh: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings.” New York Times. Jan 31, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/style/jeuje-zhoosh-zhuzh.html?searchResultPosition=1

“Understanding Genre Awareness.” Center for Applied English Studies, the University of Hong Kong, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daut5e0kWBo

Meltzer, Dan, “Understanding Discourse Communities: Melzer. Understanding Discourse Communities

Hall, Carrie. Slide Show on “What is a discourse community.”

DePeter, Ron. “How to Write Meaningful Peer Response Praise.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 3, 2020. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces3/depeter.pdf

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

Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue.” https://english.washington.edu/sites/english/files/documents/ewp/teaching_resources/amy_tan_s_mother_tongue.pdf

Malcolm X, Excerpt from his Autobiography, “Learning to Read”: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/schmerlereng1121e106spring2019/files/2019/02/Malcolm-X-Learning-to-Read.pdf

Marchese, David. “Yale’s Happiness Professor Says That Anxiety is Destroying Her Students.” The New York Times. Feb 18, 2022.     https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/21/magazine/laurie-santos-interview.html

Example of a First Draft UNIT 1 Capstone Assignment. How would YOU grade it? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LjLArV8wcT_ZEZzlKj4Q4GGB6y8zVrPVMXOwFOVvlf0/edit?usp=sharing

UNIT 2 – Research, Reliability, and Audience

“‘Schools are killing curiosity’: why we need to stop telling children to shut up and learn.” The Guardian, 28 Jan 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/28/schools-killing-curiosity-learn

Witte, Alison C. “Research Starts with Answers” and Wierszewski, Andrea. “Research Starts with a Thesis Statement.” In Bad Ideas about Writing. Edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Lowe, 2017 (link to entire book is here: https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdf )

“Video Games and the Future of Learning. “David Williamson Shaffer, Kurt R. Squire, Richard Halverson and James P. Gee. The Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Oct., 2005), pp. 104-111. Accessed by JStor.: https://www-jstor-org.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/stable/pdf/20441942.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Adc16e0e4e9b50306d366b60a40565506&ab_segments=&origin=

Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Readings about Writing, Volume 1, 2010. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/dirk–navigating-genres.pdf

UNIT 2 Mentor Texts:

Examples of OPINION PIECES in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/opinion/racism-kanye-west.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/opinion/burnout-friends-isolation.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/nyregion/regis-catholic-school-racism.html

(the above ^^^Opinion piece was written by an 18-year-old. Yes, it can happen!)

Prof. S’s Resource page with more links and advice for writing an Opinion Piece

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Quotation Resources, UNIT 2 (see also our COURSE PROFILE PAGE for a full pdf of TheySay/I Say under “files”)

Graff, Gerald & Cathy Birkenstein, “Chapter 3: As He Himself Puts It – The Art of Quoting” in They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, volume 3, 2014. https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/915212/files/28555152/download?verifier=HJ6SFj8jLsPCvE2TH17gz2aT5deBXImp3ItoFnpD&wrap=1

HOMANN, Cassia/San José State University Writing Center: PDF on EMBEDDING QUOTATIONS, Embedding-Quotations.

Stedman, Kyle. “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” Writing Spaces: Readings about Writing, volume 2, 2011. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces2/stedman–annoying-ways.pdf

Citation Resources

CityTech Library Page on Plagiarism and Citations: https://libguides.citytech.cuny.edu/citations

[Graphic Image of a very basic Annotated Bibliography Entry:] Park, Katherine. Libguides.com. College of Maryland Library (COM). Feb 15, 2018. Web. https://libguides.com.edu/blog/get-tips-for-writing-an-annotated-bibliography

[Graphic Image of a very basic Annotated Bibliography Entry for an Online Source:] Staff, EasyBib. “MLA Annotated Bibliography Format.” EasyBib, Chegg, 1 Jan. 2021, https://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/annotated-bibliography-format-mla/.

MLA Citation format guide — color coded:  “Example Citations in MLA Format.” NYAA Library Guides, https://nyaa.libguides.com/c.php?g=977809&p=7070464 

Color-coded examples of MLA 8 Format Citation (a book, a journal article, and a web page): https://nyaa.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=50757893

EasyBib Homepage for generating citations: https://www.easybib.com/

Purdue OWL: Rules for using quotations — quotes within quotes: LINK.

Purdue OWL: Rules for how to punctuate quotations: LINK.

Unit 3 – Writing in a New Genre

Berger, Jonathan. Ways of Seeing. Excerpt from Chapter 7. https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/schmerlereng1121d415spring2023/files/2022/11/Ways-of-Seeing-chap-7-excerpt.pdf

Takayoshi, Pamela, and Cynthia L Selfe. “Thinking about Multimodality.” Chapter 1. techstyle.lmc.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Takayoshi-Selfe.pdf.

Gagich, Melanie. “An Introduction to and and Strategies
for Multimodal Composing.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 3. https://writingspaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1gagich-introduction-strategies-multimodal-composing-1.pdf

Murray, Donald. “The Maker’s Eye.” Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers. Ed. By Paul Escholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005. https://robertnazar.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/themakerseye.pdf

Murray, Donald. “Internal Revision.” https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/fywpd/files/2019/01/Murray-Internal-Revision.pdf

UNIT 4 – Final Portfolio

Prof. Carrie Hall’s Canva document about how to work on a Final Portfolio: https://www.canva.com/design/DAEPqOmwUnE/u8-KpOwC8bYckulFQvLkqA/view?utm_content=DAEPqOmwUnE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink#3

Online Grammar:

“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.

See Purdue Online Writing Lab, below. Here are more links for punctuation:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/index.html

Comma Exercises:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl_exercises/punctuation_exercises/commas/comma_exercise_2.html

General Exercise Practice in Writing:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl_exercises/index.html

Free Online Style Guide:

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

Suggested Additional Reading:

They Say/I Say by Graff and Birkenstein. It is recommended that you purchase this book, or you can also download a free PDF on our COURSE PROFILE PAGE.