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Introduction
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
Lens Analysis
Logical Fallacies
Revision: Re-Seeing Your Writing
Rhetorical Situation and Appeals
Section Titles and Signposts
Strong Research Questions
Visual Rhetoric and Communications
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
The Craft of Research by Booth, et al
“How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn
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”
Li-Young Lee “Eating Together”
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”
Francisco X. Alarcón: “Those Who Have Lost Everything
June Jordan: "Poem About My Rights"
Louise Erdrich: "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
May Swenson: "Women"
Victoria Chang: "Barbie Chang Loves Evites"
Ashwak Fardoush: “The Starfruit Tree”
Rabindranath Tagore: The Cabuliwallah
Lu Xun: Diary of a Madman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Zitkala-Sa: American Indian Stories
Mary Burrell: They That Sit in Darkness
Alice Gerstenberg: Overtones
Susan Glaspell: Trifles
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Marion Craig Wentworth: War Brides
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
George Bernard Shaw: "The Problem of a Common Language"
Stephen Hong Sohn (et al): "Theorizing Asian American Fiction"
Simon Gunn: "Translating Bourdieu: cultural capital and the English middle class in historical perspective
Keith Osajima: "Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s"
Elaine H. Kim: "Defining Asian American Realities through Literature"
Lisa Lowe: "Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences"
Asif Agha: "The social life of cultural value"
Lynda Mugglestone: "Shaw, Subjective Inequality, and the Social Meanings of Language in Pygmalion"
Brendan O'Leary: "The Shackles of the State & Hereditary Animosities: Colonialism in the Interpretation of Irish History"
Read Sonia Sanchez’s “This Is Not a Small Voice” at the poets.org collection.
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