Clive thompson
In his recent work, Clive Thompson suggests That we are in the middle of a literary revolution. Thompson claims that technology is helping us not holding us back but that it is helping us advance our writing skills in new ways. Thompson talks about how our generation writes more than any other generation has in the past and that technology is the reason for that. Thompson is one of the few elder people that is accepting of our generations newer writing style . My own view is that Thompson is right and we are in the midst of a literary revolution. I realize that most elder more old fashion people assume that kids these days do not write well. In their perspective all of our abbreviations and just the way we write in general is totally wrong and they don’t think anyone should write like that ever, it is completely unacceptable to them. Just as they don’t appreciate how we Wright, they also do not appreciate what we write about or why we write it. I believe in their minds the things we write about is just a bunch of unimportant nonsense. I also think that if elder people would open their minds and just look around them that they would realize how much more efficient our generation’s way of writing is and they would also see that we write for mostly our own personal and social reasons. I think elder people could see that we are in a literary revolution but most of them are so narrow minded that they don’t want to see it. Elder people are dead set against anything they do not understand. For example most elder people do not understand technology so they think it is bad and that it is holding us back. When really they just do not understand it.
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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
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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