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The Rise of Brooklyn, What’s Wrong and What’s Right

The word “gentrification” brings, to the typical New Yorker, an image of evil—where lower and working class residents are pushed out of their homes by the upper class, and when the culture and community of each neighborhood gradually loses its identify. Alan Ehrenhalt’s NYTimes article, “The Rise of Brooklyn, What’s Wrong and What’s Right” localizes the effect of gentrification to Brooklyn, and discusses the glossed-over aspects of the process by referring to an assessment done by Kay S. Hymowitz.

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ITF Post: How to add footnotes to your posts

After reading everyone’s latest posts, it occurred to me that there’s a simple way to add citations to your posts: the plugin FD Footnotes. I’ve activated FD Footnotes and now you can easily add footnotes to your posts.

Why is this important? 1. Published posts instantly appear more streamlined; 2. As a result, the reader focuses on your ideas and you’re still properly citing your sources. 3. Learning how to adapt academic writing conventions to digital formats develops your ability to write for different platforms and audiences.1

Read on for very easy instructions + screen recording that I made to show you how to do it!

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  1. Alexis Carrozza, ITF for your seminar. ↩