Welcome to Our Blog Conversations Beyond the Classroom!

Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation 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! I 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!

Monday, April 25, 2011

quotation sandwiches

Zach Dudoit jr.


Eng.100


Quotation Sandwiches


April 25, 2011



In today’s world, people are becoming impatient and don’t want to deal with the same things they used to be okay with. I think that is because all the new technologies that we have today allow us to get to the point quicker and get our task done in a more efficient manner. Because technology is evolving people are too evolving. Kevin, a student at Whatcom community college, says, “As I walk the earth, I find that people are always trying to find new ways to get things done quicker and more efficient.” So as we grow we learn things, things that help us discover or create new way to evolve, find a more efficient way to live.


On the internet, readers tend to do things and research in a certain way. They access sites quickly, they skim pages, and if they don’t find what they want they move on. Clicking on hyperlinks and websites searching something that makes since to them. On his online article, “Lazy Eyes”, Michael Agger describes this kind of people as “informavores”, they access sites quickly searching for information scents and moving on if there’s no food. Agger argues that online readers are doing things differently,these days people jump on the internet and just jump from hyperlink to hyperlink skimming the page looking for the main point. He goes on to say that someone needs to change and it’s not the reader but instead the writer, they need to capture our attention and hold it. There are too many distractions on the net for people today information needs to be able to compete.


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