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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



Monday, November 1, 2010

Lest WE Think The REvoltion Is a Revolution

--Had to retype since my computer erased it all without warning


In Cynthia L Selfe’s book she mainly states that images of technology are changing our ways of thinking. In a section of the paragraph Selfe states that “Men use technology to accomplish things; women benefit from technology to enhance the ease of their lives or to benefit their families.” What Selfe means by this statement is that men use technology to make a living and to make the money in the house, while women use their technology to cook, and clean for their families. The roles back in the fifties have changed gradually throughout the years and many of the things that were introduced then have changed a lot now. Selfe doesn’t just talk about how gender roles were an issue. She also talks about how women back in the fifties were judged mainly for their beauty. In car ad’s for example they used women to try and sell the car, now a days you’ll watch a car commercial and notice that they mainly talk about safety because it’s the one thing that people seem to care about more than ever. She also says how we hope computers can help us make the world a much better place for us to live in, and hoping one day students will be able to be productive in the classroom. What she mainly means by this is that she hope that with the technology we have now that we will someday be able to change the world for the better. In relation she also says, “One of the most popular narratives Americans tell ourselves about computers is that technology will help us create a global village in which the people of the world are all connected—communicating with one another and cooperating for the commonweal.” What she mainly means by this statement is that one day we will be able to get along with everyone because of the technology we have.

Claim: Americans used to only care about what men wanted in the fifties

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