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Introduction
Analyzing with Literary Terms
Closely Reading Poetry and Prose
Critical Frameworks for Literary Analysis
Framing and Introducing Literary Evidence
Literary and Figurative Devices
Literary Layers of Discourse
Literary Theory
Posing Questions of Literature
Summarizing a Literary Text
8 Strategies for Critically Engaging Secondary Sources
Argumentation
Citing Supporting / Secondary Sources
Developing Strong Claims
Developing Strong Thesis Statements
Developing and Structuring Argument
Effective Paragraphing
Gordon Harvey’s “Elements of the Academic Essay”
Elements of an Annotated Bibliography
Functions of Sources: ExACT Source Use
Identifying Intellectual or Interpretive Problems
Introductions and Conclusions
Lens Analysis
Logical Fallacies
Revision: Re-Seeing Your Writing
Rhetorical Situation and Appeals
Section Titles and Signposts
Socratic Questioning Technique
Strong Research Questions
Visual Rhetoric and Communications
“How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn
Francisco X. Alarcón: “Those Who Have Lost Everything
Victoria Chang: "Barbie Chang Loves Evites"
Louise Erdrich: "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
Tarfia Faizullah: “Yr Not Exotic, but Once Ya Wanted to Be”
Ross Gay: “A Small Needful Fact”
Ross Gay: “Pulled Over in Short Hills, NJ, 8:00 AM”
Joy Harjo: “An American Sunrise”
Victor Hernández Cruz: “Problems with Hurricanes”
Langston Hughes: “Harlem”
June Jordan: "Poem About My Rights"
Li-Young Lee “Eating Together”
Li-Young Lee: “Persimmons”
Audre Lorde: “A Woman Speaks”
Pablo Neruda: “The Dictators”
Wole Soyinka: “The Child Before a Mirror of Strangers”
Sonia Sanchez: “This Is Not a Small Voice”
May Swenson: "Women"
Ashwak Fardoush: “The Starfruit Tree”
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Chinua Achebe: “An Image of Africa”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The danger of a single story”
Simon Gikandi: “Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Culture”
Sohela Nazneen “The Women’s Movement in Bangladesh”
Binyavanga Wainaina: “How to Write About Africa”
Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons Basics
CUNY Academic Integrity Policy
Library Guide for English 130
MLA Citation Resources
Visual Image Repositories and Resources
Read Li-Young Lee’s “Persimmons” at the Poetry Foundation collection.
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