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



Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Part Two

The media has effects on all age's not just teens. I would have to say it impacts everyone at some point in their life. The media has the power to make people want to be a certain way, to change their value's and morals, the way they dress to keep up with the latest fasHions just to feel like they belong. It's called being "HOLLYWOOD". that in my view is what you get from to much media! you get to lose yourself, and for the most part it's the people that want to, that usually GET LOST. The online pressure is so strong that when my 10 year old son who is usually a bright kid decided to watch youtube he felt like he could do what the kids on the screen were doing because of course it's on "TV" you cant always believe whats on "TV". So he talked his cousin into doing the little trick he learned online, and probably about 5 hours later my sister and I finally got their feet apart from being super glued together. So my point is that the web can empower you. but if you cant or your not a strong enough person to make good choices it's really dangerous.
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