Primary Sources
Use the tabs below to access the PDFs used for in-class reading strategies on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
Chop Suey Retorts
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6074/2018/02/16170231/Chop-Suey-NYTIMES.pdf
English vs. American Food
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6074/2018/02/16170231/English-v-American-food-NYTIMS.pdf
Sauerkraut May Be Liberty Cabbage
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6074/2018/02/16170231/NYT_sauerkraut.pdf
Handouts
Eportfolio Handout
This handout contains the agenda and vocabulary words for the eportfolio workshop that was held in class on Feb. 6, 2018 in preparation for the mandatory Seminar 2 final project. A preview of the final project can be viewed here.
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6074/2018/02/16170231/6Feb2018-Sem2-ITFeportfoliohandout.pdf
Paraphrase x 3
Use this handout to help develop the skill of paraphrasing, the value of which is described below:
If you paraphrase a key passage from a reading several times, you will discover that it gets you working with the language. But you need to paraphrase slavishly. You can’t let yourself just go for the gist; replace all of the key words. The new words you are forced to come up with represent first stabs at interpretation, at having (small) ideas about what you are reading by unearthing a range of possible meanings embedded in the passage.
Source: Writing Analytically, 4th ed., by Rosenwasser and Stephens, 35.
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6074/2018/02/16170230/13Feb2018_Paraphrasex3-edited.pdf
The Method
Use this handout and exercise to help “decode” difficult texts:
The Method is our shorthand for a systematic procedure for analyzing evidence by looking for patterns of repetition and contrast. It differs from other tools we have been offering in being more comprehensive. Whereas Notice and Focus and 10 on 1 cut through a wealth of data to focus on individual details, The Method goes for the whole picture, involving methodical application of a matrix or grid of observational moves upon a subject. Although these are separate moves, they also work together and build cumulatively to the discovery of an infrastructure, a blueprint of the whole.
Source: Writing Analytically, 4th ed, by Rosenwasser and Stephens, 37.
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6074/2018/02/16170230/The-Method_SauerkrautLibertyCabbage.pdf
