In the article, “On The New Literacy” by Clive Thompson. Thompson suggests that writing and technology has made an impact on our world today. Thompson also suggests other people’s point of views on the topic and expresses his own option of what they’re trying to say. Thompson also discusses how before the internet even came along most Americans never wrote anything, that wasn’t a school assignment. But once the internet was made after a few years 38 percent of Standford student’s writings took place outside of the classroom. Even though Thompson doesn’t say directly that technology will change writing forever he does say that online media is pushing literacy into cool directions. My own view of this article is that technology has changed our generation for the better especially the invention of the internet. Thanks for face book, twitter, and myspace our writing has gone to a farther level making our writing more interesting and inspirational. Many people believe that because of those types of sites our writing hasn’t improved at all but in all reality it’s actually helped our writing become more creative and true. Even though someone says in the article that, “Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays.” They don’t understand the real impact the internet has made. Though I concede that the internet is has helped us become better writers, I still maintain that sometimes the internet has resources that aren’t all that helpful for student writers. For example there are some sites that aren’t very accurate if you’re looking up something to use in a paper such as information on Wikipedia which anyone can change at anytime. But in all goodness technology has impacted students and people in general for the better. Especially through the ways of writing, it’s made students open up their minds to new ideas because of inspiration.
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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
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
I like how in your opinion you said that the internet isn't always reliable.
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