Course Materials

Cover Letter Samples

Outlines Eng 1101

Refutation sentence strategies

Argument outline

Grading Guidelines Eng 1101

Readings

Coyne-The Long Good-Bye

Knafo-Is Gentrification a Human Rights Violation

Schmidt-Excuse Me, America, Your House is on Fire

Fullilove-Root Shock

Tupac and My Non-Thug Life

Lorde-The Fourth of July

Love and Black Lives

Lectures

Problem.Solution Basic Features

Argument Basic Features

Narrative Basic Features

Reading for Meaning

MLA Format

OWL MLA Format

MLA Format 2016 Update OWL (sample essay)

MLA-citations-abridged-8th-ed

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Fullilove’s “Root Shock: The Consequences of African American Dispossession”

Issue: The consequences of Urban Renewal for African American communities

Arguments:

• Urban renewal is a direct cause of ill health
• Urban renewal is an indirect cause of ill health
  • UR causes people to lose their homes
• Urban renewal generated a fundamental cause of disease
  • worse education
  • inability for acquisition of other goods or businesses–financial resources invested to move/survive
• Urban renewal has negative financial costs to communities
  • UR causes people to lose their homes
• Urban renewal has a negative effect on social issues of the people impacted by those policies
  • people got more individualistic (selfish)
  • more heavily affected by negative forces
• Urban renewal is politically disruptive/has negative political effects
  • weakened voting blocks
  • created hostility and suspicion