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



Thursday, October 28, 2010

Land of equal opprotunity

In this article “lest we think the revolution is a revolution images of technology and the nature of change” by Cynthia L. Selfe, Self telling us how we tell our selves computers change our focuses on all characteristics ascribed to the electronic land scape. The electronic land scape recreates the american dream focused on equal opportunity. Advertisements use the electronic landscape to emphasize the traditional american values. The Advertisements use old traditional values that were in the 1950's are showing up today. The technological process characteristics what americans accomplish in the land of equal opportunity. (pages 301-305)

Selfe states in this article “ we are not alone in these stories that we tell ourselves-indeed, they are echoed for us constantly and in a variety of versions”(page293, par. 7). This coment to me is saying not only one person dreams of the american dream. Lots of people talk about this american dream every day. I think that this is true, but the dream is different for everyone. Some people dream to just be rich. Others dream to have money, but they want to spend it on stuff to bring there family together and to help everyone else too.

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