In the recent work of Nicholas Carr, he writes an article called "Is Google Making us Stupid?" In this piece of wrting he brings up how spending time online and surfing the web may be the cause of a lack of concentration and ability to deep thinking. Carr says that he use to read books more than anything and that olden day work would reward him with a better intelect when it comes to concentrating. Carr was able to read slowly so that he could understand each and every term and concept introduced. When the Internet became big and Nicholas Carr begain to use it more and more he noticed himself skimming the pages of the Web and scanning headlines. The more he began to notice this, the more he reliezed that the Internet may be causing the people who use it to concentrate less and develop a decrease in deep intelctual thinking. Carr says, "It is clear that users are not reading oline in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of "reading" are emerging as users "power browse" horizontaly through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense." (Par 8). This says that when users are using the Internet for their reasources instead of books that they are skimming and using the eaiser way to get their work done and over with quicker rather than conducting their work the "traditional" way where it helps to read each and every word slowly without skimming through the pages.
When reading Carr's work i could find myself agreeing with what he was saying about how people who use the Internet are more likely to skim through their work and get it done as fast as possible. Technology is being made with shortcuts, such as a phone for example, it is so much faster to text someone than it is to write a hand written letter. However, through this quick passed electronic age, I do notice that it has made it so much eaiser to do things fast and get it over with. This is why I agree that in school, it has gotten more fast pace and when students read they skim to get it over with as quick as possible.
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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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