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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



Thursday, October 28, 2010

summary

In Cynthia L. Selfe’s book “Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution” she discusses many interesting topics and explains her stance and thoughts. Each paragraph has important ideas that need to be keyed on. Computers create electronic landscape in which all have equal stakes; we have equal opportunities and access. (301) The internet, according to the American view, is uncharted territory, the new frontier and available to anyone who values innovation, individualism, and competition. (302) Advertisements play on the narrative to capture the American fascination with traditional values. (302) Cultural memory is potent for Americans because advertisements know this and try to capture the values that we Americans have to revere. (302) Technological progress characterizes what American know-how can accomplish when circumstances are right. (303) Suggests that citizens of the 21st century can achieve the same kind of happy security and personal well-being that was enjoyed by citizens of the 50’s. (303) America is the land of opportunity but only for privileged people. (304) If we believe that technology can help us all to improve our lives, we aren’t actually able to accomplish this because we can’t even envision this in our ads or commercials. (304)
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