Pages 294-301 (Narrative one)
Recently I read over chapter 16 in “Lest We Think Revolution is a Revolution,” by Cynthia L. Selfe. Focusing primarily on the first narrative, “The “Global Village” and the “Electronic Colony,”” I developed the understanding Selfe has towards the world and technology. According to Selfe people all over the world are connected through the internet which acts as a “natural force, drawing people into greater world harmony.” Among the rest of the world, America holds 20 percent of the population while consuming nearly 80 percent of all resources. As many people already know, America is a global leader to the rest of the world, but with the sudden popularity of the internet, could order be changing? If America loses their position of being so highly technologically advanced they may lose there economic benefits that have been acquired and a new global context could function. However this is not the case, Americans maintain a vision that connects people together from all corners of the world, yet we see ourselves as the leaders who are providing the opportunity to be connected, so we control it. This is not only true electronically, as America has provided assistance in varying acts such as Lend lease and the Peace Corps for several decades. Technology provides a gateway to connect with the rest of the world, but it seems to also be reinforcing old stereotypes. Although now thanks to the internet, it is easy for people to receive a glimpse of what it looks like half way around the world, it can also be misleading. Selfe distinguished this through advertisements she came across online. Advertisements representing an African woman nursing a baby and a chimp are very misleading and continue to reinforce old stereotypes. Technology is not a solution for world problem, it may actually contributing to them.
Selfe states that "technology is not the solution for all of the world's problem-and, indeed, it might well be a contributing cause to many of them." in other words, Selfe is implying that that technology is the root to all evil, and we would be much better off with out it in our lives.
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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
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