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, November 1, 2010

Cynthia L. Selfe Essay Review

The most interesting thing I found in the essay by Cynthia L. Selfe is when she talks about technology and the internet affecting the way people live and what Americans think about it and how they view it. On the internet everyone can do the things they want and search for the things they want to search for. I also think that people on the internet can be whoever they want to be and they will feel like that are just as important as other people and that everyone is equal, and when it comes down to that some people don’t like the idea of everyone being equal. One quote I found and that I think several people will agree with is, “Technology is the American Tool.” I think that she stated this because before when we didn’t have printers, computers, internet, cell phones, we didn’t know how to share and receive information. Now that we have all those we can get information and share it with other people in the click of a button. When I put these two ideas together I get for the most part that technology can become a huge help to this world or it can destroy it all together and that technology being our tool and the way we are going to do it won’t change for a long time so we need to get used to it and make it work.
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