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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



Thursday, October 28, 2010

Summary of Cynthia L. Selfe

Cynthia L. Selfe's essay "lest we think the revolution is a revolution Images of technology and the nature of change." In the secomd half of narrative #3 "The un-Gendered utopia" and 'The same old stuff"(305-309) Selfe states "a good portion of collective imagination is constructed by history and sedimented in the past experiance and habit". As she speaks of the "un-gendered utopia". According to Selfe the re-vising of the utopia is set back in the 50's when woman were no longer encouraged to maintain a presence in the workplace. "woman faced with this eventuality, became the savvy managers of the private sphere". The woman of this time were expected to heed the advice of DR.Spock, take advantage of the salk vaccine for polio, become effective health advisors, and they were expected to use the newely developed and improved technologies of electric vaccume cleaners,dishwashers,washing machines,TV's,cleaning products and station wagons to be increasingly effective housekeepers. Today advertisements show that "men use tech to accomplish things and woman benifit from tech to enhance the ease of their lives or to benifit their families". My view of this portion of Selfe's text is that even though women have came along way with their rights it's still not equal to men's rights. We do alot more today than in the 50's but i think that in the backs of our minds we are still somewhat holding onto those old steriotypes.
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