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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



Monday, November 1, 2010

Cynthia L. Selfe's essay review

In Cynthia L. Selfe’s essay that I found the most interesting is where she talks about culture and how the internet and technology effects cultures and how us Americans feel about that. Technology has the power to create a “Melting Pot” of all races and bring them together. On the internet everyone is equal and if everyone has the same access to the internet and everyone has the same power, then us Americans I think will feel threatened by that. This part of her essay is called, “Land of Equal Opportunity and Land of Difference.” I agree that to some people this could be threatening, but I feel it’s a great thing that people all around the world can have the same say as we do, it makes us stronger as a human race in some ways, but I can see how in others it can be highly threatening to Americans who believe that we are the ultimate country and the ultimate leaders. All throughout history we Americans have been heroes of other countries by helping them when they are going through hard times. Americans think that they are looked at as superior to most of the other countries, so if the internet allows other countries to be equal with us, it will scare us.

I think that overall in her essay she is saying that technology and the internet can increase the equality all over the globe, and that technology can help all countries improve to some extent, and that we are all equal no matter race, sex, or ethnicity.

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