In this essay “Lest we think the revolution is a revolution images of technology and the nature of change” by Cynthia L. Selfe , Selfe talks about how technology is making us express our selves. In person each gender has a role to play the female is the house wife and the man is the hard labor worker who earns the money. Well on the computer that is not always the case. No one can see what another person looks like unless that person uploads a picture on to the computer so that person can be who ever they want to be and can basically say what they want to say with out people talking to them in person about it . Also this essay is talking about the American dream. How many people have the same dream and everyone knows about the American dream. Advertizmets use that American dream to their advantage and compare their product to that American dream.
In Selfes essay she states “Unfortunately, if americans have no collective imaginary context for, or historical experience of, a real global village, nor do they havce any real experience with an undifferentiated land of opportunity. Our cultural experience, indeed, tells us something very different-that America is the land of opportunity only for some people”(par.36). To support this statement by Selfe she uses the history of slavery. Also she goes on and talks about how a woman has never been president and we have boarders to our country. Only the lucky groups of people get the good things out of our country. Another claim is “This cultural memory is a potent one for Americans, and these ads resonate with the values that we remember as characterizing that golden time”(par.33). Selfe talks about how the advertisements play on the narrative and how they have the enduring power to inform technological innovations. Also there is a part where she says the cisco systems, uses a picture that could been in a dick and jane reader.
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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
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
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