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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

“The Ungendered Utopia” and “The Same Old Gendered Stuff”

In my group’s discussion on “Lest We Think The Revolution Is A Revolution” by Cynthia L. Selfe, we were given the 3rd narrative titled, The Ungendered Utopia” and “The Same Old Gendered Stuff” In first paragraph we came to the conclusion that Americans today are still focused on gender, but we believe in time technology will get rid of the gender discrimination even though men are usually the ones using technology. I the second paragraph we read about how Andrea Dworkin’s explains about analysis and of images that can provide us with the chance to unthink about current discourses due to what technology has done. In the next paragraph we read we came to the conclusion that the paragraph was mainly about an un-gendered utopia and how it is idea to something that appeals to us, but what we came from can still be accomplished it will just take a lot of work. In the next paragraph we found that the main idea was, it’s impossible to reason an ungendered utopia because we are so comfortable about how society. The 5th paragraph made us really think about what the main idea actually was, and we found that the revisited narrative states technology is ingenerated but the way we use it promises otherwise society that puts valves on technology. In the last paragraph we found the main idea was the fact that the same old genders stuff us mainly how we see womens roles such as housewife, maid, or caregiver. It’s mainly just about what we used to think was the right thing before technology took over.

The quote I mainly want to focus on is, “There is a remarkable absence in all the images of people of color, and poor people, and people who are out of work, and single-parent families, and gay couples, foreigners.” I found this quote important because, it’s telling about the truth of the olden days and what they used to do with ads. This relates to my topic because it’s related to gender which is mainly what my topic is about.

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