Cynthia Self's article "lest we think revolution is a revolution" Is about the effects of technology on the world. Self makes many main points. She starts off by talking about educators and how they are undecided about technology. Self then moves on to talk about the social changes that people think the internet will bring. Self claims that the internet was thought to bring about a social reform where women and men have equal rights and will merge, the same with different ethnicities. However she points out that the internet has just reinforced our social differences and not merged them. Self also tries to show that while technology is looked at in a good light because it is helping third world countries and their struggles it is rather just displaying our technological superiority and forcing a cultural difference and stereotype. Also self notes that technology is being used more for profit rather than as a tool to help others.
One claim I found interesting from Cynthia Self's article is "This landscape, Americans like to believe is open to everybody--male and female, regardless of color, class, or connection. It is, in fact, at some level, a romantic recreation of the American story and the American landscape themselves--a narrative of opportunity in an exciting land claimed from the wilderness, founded on the values of hard work and fair play" (301). The landscape which she is referring to is the electronic or internet landscape. She uses an advertisement to demonstrate her claim, one that emphasizes on traditional American values but connects it to an operating system from Microsoft.
Another claim from Self's article is "Our cultural experience, indeed, tells us something very different--that America is the land of opportunity only for some people" (304). Self explains this by mentioning the history of slavery , deaf education, women's suffrage, immigration, and labor unions, she is refuting the idea that she earlier claimed Americans believe.
Welcome!
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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