Queens College Resources for Students

• The Writing Center in Kiely Hall 229 (phone: 718-997-5676) provides free writing support services to all enrolled Queens College students and is a helpful resource for writers at any level and at any stage of the writing process. Students can visit the website to make an appointment.
  https://sites.google.com/qc.cuny.edu/qcwritingcenter/home
• The Conversation Groups Program (TBD)
• The First Year Experience (FYE) in Honors Hall 05 (phone: 718-997-5567) supports freshmen students with learning communities, peer mentorship, and familiarity with the expectations of college and Queens College resources. Students can visit the website for more information.
  http://fye.qc.cuny.edu/

Additional Writing Resources for Students and Teachers

• The Purdue OWL Writing Lab is an invaluable reference for citation formatting and style, along with writing resources and material: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
• Harvard College Writing Center Strategies for Essay Writing page provides concise advice on fundamental elements of academic writing:
  https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/strategies-essay-writing
• The University of North Carolina Writing Center has numerous helpful handouts on writing and sentence-level concerns:
  https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/.
• Quick and Dirty Tips from Grammar Girl offers tips on grammar, interviews with writers, and podcasts:
  https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl
• Indiana University offers tutorials and tests on recognizing plagiarism:
  https://plagiarism.iu.edu/
• Norton/Write has model student papers, an essay in three drafts, and documentation guides: https://digital.wwnorton.com/14100

Suggested Reading on Teaching Multilingual Writers

• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Position Statement on Second Language Writing and Multilingual Writers. https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions/secondlangwriting
• “Multilingual Writers in College Contexts” by Sara P. Alvarez
• “Pedagogies of Digital Composing Through a Translingual Approach” by Cristina Sánchez Martín, Lavinia Hirsu, Laura Gonzales, and Sara P. Alvarez
• “Negotiating Translingual Literacy: An Enactment” by A. Suresh Canagarajah
• “Translingual Writing and Teacher Development in Composition” Suresh Canagarajah
• Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations (book) by Suresh Canagarajah
• Literacy as Translingual Practice: Between Communities and Classrooms (essay anthology) edited by Suresh Canagarajah
• “Defining Translinguality” by Bruce Horner and Sara P. Alvarez
• “Language Difference in Writing: Toward a Translingual Approach” by Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and John Trimbur
• “Translingual literacy, language difference, and matters of agency” by Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner
• “The connection between transcultural dispositions and translingual practices in academic writing” by Eunjeong Lee and Suresh Canagarajah

Something to Share?

If you have resources that you would like to share, please let us know! Email the Directors of First Year Writing with the link to the site and a brief explanation of how the site can be helpful to students and/or teachers.