The English Rigor Committee and Hostos Community College are pleased to host a CUNY-wide conference on academic integrity on Sept. 29, 2017 on the Hostos Campus. More than 12 CUNY campuses will be represented! […]
The English Club’s Dramatic Reading for Spring 2017 will take place on Thursday, April 27, from 12:15 to 2 PM in the Savoy Multi-Purpose Room. Perform or come to enjoy literary works by other writers, in any […]
In this post, you’ll find sample annotated bibliography assignments appropriate to the ENG 110 level, as part of the teaching of research skills. Thank you to Professors Heidi Bollinger and Tram Nguyen for sharing […]
The Fall 2016 Hostos English Club Celebration of Student Poets will take place on Wednesday, November 16, from 12:15 to 2:00 PM in the Savoy Multipurpose Room in the D Building. The event includes reading […]
The Spring 2016 semester’s English Club Dramatic Reading event will take place on Tuesday, March 15, at 12:30 PM, in the Savoy Multi-Purpose Room. To register to read a poem at the event, please email Professor Ch […]
Join professor Lou Bury and continue to celebrate the publication of his book, Exercises in Criticism. Prof Bury will be part of a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center at 4 PM on April 24, 2015, entitled “Models and […]
Sponsored by the Hostos English Club, the Spring 2015 Dramatic Reading Contest will take place on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in the Savoy Multi-Purpose Room, at 12:30 PM. English Club members and English faculty […]
Please join Professor Charles Rice-Gonzalez on Sunday, March 15, at 7 PM, when he will read at The Sunday Salon prose reading series, at Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village.
In this Best Practice post, you’ll find ideas from Professor Craig Bernardini about a developmental writing unit on education, suitable for use in English 93.
Thanks to Professor Craig Bernardini for sharing this compare and contrast assignment, designed for his Writing About Music elective. The Springsteen lesson, he notes, would be adaptable for ENG 110 or 111 as […]
Thanks to Professor Craig Bernardini for this contribution to the TLC, a set of “study guides and classwork for some classic expository writings”: Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto,” Martin Luther King’s “Letter […]
Join English Department Faculty member Lou Bury as he discusses his new book at an upcoming event at the Humanities Initiative at New York University on Tuesday, March 31, from 6 to 8 PM. The book, Exercises in […]
Here is a sample English 111 take-home essay assignment about Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun. The author of this assignment, Professor Bollinger, finds that it “works well because it asks s […]
These documents come courtesy of Professor Bollinger and her English 110 course, which is themed around food. She has used this in-class writing question on analyzing a print advertisement, and has used the […]
Thanks to Professor Michael Cisco for providing his study guide to the 1904 short story “The White People.” In Professor Cisco’s words, the story is “a classic weird tale by Arthur Machen.” The text of the tale is […]