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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

Technology Revolution


Pg. 309-322

Paragraph 1:There is a strength with using women with technology because they both represent beauty.

Paragraph 2: The American society sees women as mothers, seductresses, and beautiful but it is hard to change the thinking of those that use woman on ads as the beautiful and sophisticated one, when in fact they could be a construction worker.

Paragraph 3: The stereotypical men are suppose to run companies or be manual labors and dress the part, too.

Paragraph 4: It is hard for Americans to get outside the box of stereotyping each other. The advertisers feed on these stereotypes that society throws them. Americans need to discover new opportunities of designing new ads to go towards all jobs for men and women. Our culture would rather sit back in comfort and the past then moving towards the future of a new way of advertising.

Paragraph 5: Americans needs to confront these issues immediately. The social or the education that is taught to the generation of children will then reflect later and will show what will happen later on. If teachers educate the children the right way then our culture will come together.

Paragraph 6: It is not the teachers but the students will give the final results. They need to understand the effects of stereotyping on advertisements and the flip side of the coin of what will happen if we stay stuck in the past.

Paragraph 7: Educators or teachers will become great if they teach both sides of the story not just parts or their opinion.

Paragraph 8: Changing the education system will be hard, not knowing whether or not to keep the sacred technology. Teachers must be optimistic about their subjects of teaching. The American educators must teach the effects of racism, classism and sexism and what this countries history is. Change…

Cynthia Self author of this chapter, Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution Images of Technology and the Nature of Change. Self claims, “Like Americans, we hope computers can help us make the world a better place in which to live.” Self suggests that our hope is in technology to make the world a better place.

I would disagree because our hope should not be in technology but in God!

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