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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

They say + claim "lest we think the revolution is a revolution."


“Lest We Think Revolution” by Cynthia L. Selfe, talks about the “global village” and “Electronic colony” (global technology) will bring us peace.  Self talks about how we use the internet. The internet (the global village) leaves out many important things such as racism, sexism, and etc.  by the internet eliminating all these differences from everyone who uses the web, alone this will bring everyone together regardless of who, what, and where they are and bring peace towards everyone. The “Electronic colony” are people who are out of date with technology. You can live in the 21st century but yet still live in a different dimension by simply not having any connection  and being up to date with technology.  Selfe then talks about “ Land of Equal Opportunity” and “Land of Difference” in Narrative two. Narrative two has a different perspective than selfe had in narrative one. Narrative two is simply about how now matter what race, gender, etc. that technology will always be equal to anyone. Narrative three talks about “un-gendered Utopia” and “same old gendered stuff”. Men are pictured as the people that do the hard work for family’s such as having a job, etc. and women will be the “typical” stay at home wife that does the cooking and cleaning. The internet can help change these views of genders and make both genders equal.

Claim 1. “like American, we hope computers can help us make the world a beter place in which to live.”
Evidence: Computers can help make us, and rhe students  with whom we work, mor productive in the classroom and other instructional settings more effective as communicators and more responsibly involved as literate citizens in world affairs. Pg. 293. Computers can help us learn better because the internet is an amazing source of information. The internet is a great source of also connecting with other and the world.
Claim 2. "America is land of opportuity, but only for some people"
Evidence:  this shows that America puts off a image to other countrys that America is a land of opportunity but in really the opportunity that we get from living in america a only for certaint kinds of people. through out history many people never had a lot of opportunitys. We had slavery, deaf education, womens with now rights immigration child labor  etc.  We are still going through this to this day although a lot has improved, but we still have immigration going on and we still have not yet had a women president yet as an example.

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