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



Monday, October 25, 2010

" is google making us stupid"

In this article “is google making us stupid” Nicholas Carr is talking about how google is helping and not helping us at the same time. The whole article is not all about google it is about technology in general. How it is effecting how we act. He talks about how our behavior reacts to all of the new things and how our learning stratagies are changing. He is basically trying to say when the technology changes we change too. Carr makes the claim “we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies” (par. 26). This claim by Carr is stating how we start to process things through like the machines and other tools we use. We no longer do anything old school we have new ways of doing things just like how we have newest and lasted technology. He says the clocks methodical ticking helped bring into being the scientific mind and the scientific man. Also he says people start to act like the machines, we don’t read everything we just point out the important facts. We can no longer pay attention to one thing the internet scatters our attention and diffuse our concentration.
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