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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?

As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).

Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!

--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100



Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Clive Thompson essay Kyle. M

The world is turning into a new and resourceful land were people are evolving and adapting to the environments around them. A brand new environment that is fairly new is the World Wide Web. Filled with social networks, search engines, and everything in-between it’s a fast growing craze that has no line of stop anytime soon. In Clive Thompsons writing, the new literacy, he states that this new technology environment known as the internet is actually hampering young students and scholars alike. It has caused great scars in grammar, spelling, and overall writing ambition. Andrea Lunsford disagrees with the above accusation based on the internet social level. With Facebook and other social networks we as a people have actually evolved writing to take on a more appropriate form for internet use. People are now actually writing more because their work is based on an audience of online spectators. All in all the writing gives both sides to an overwhelmingly large argument that has been around since the internet’s creation. Whether either side is actually right, we will have to wait and see as the years come and go.

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2 comments:

  1. Stephanie HoltonOctober 12, 2010 at 1:44 PM

    This was well writen. So much of the time essays seem to turn out boring but you used wonderful language. It was nice to read.

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  2. DestinyMasseyOctober 12, 2010 at 1:45 PM

    I agree on what you're saying about how Facebook and other social networks are helping people evolve in writing. Ever since I've been using Facebook it's been helping me write more and express myself. Facebook posting is not a chore compared to some writing you have to do in school, and it still helps you improve on your writing skills when it comes down to having to sit down in school and write a paper on Ancient Greece or something along those lines.

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