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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!


--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Google=Stupid ??

In his recent work, Carr suggests that "the net is becomming a universal medium." Or as we would call it today, a societal norm; a must have. Without the internet, we would not know nearly as much data or information that we have right now. We might be learning it faster, but we are still getting the same information that we did without the internet. Carr is saying that the net is so commonly used, without it we would be like chickens with our heads cut off. Even though sociecty survived before the break of the net, you wouldn't be able to just get rid of it. Do you think google makes people stupid?
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  1. crazyanna888January 19, 2011 at 12:07 PM

    It seems that the internet comes to a point that it controls what we learn. It directs us to what to look into. But it is a very usefull source. If we manage how we use the internet and make sure that our only learning doesnt just happen in front of a computer we will be ok. If we read a real book and or write down our own thoughts on paper we can keep our learning options open and keep them alive.

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  2. morgan.englandJanuary 19, 2011 at 12:10 PM

    The reason the writer says that google is making us stupid is that we do not read enough that has us find a deeper meaning and ask questions so that our brains have to work and for this reason they say our minds are becoming weak. I believe that saying that google is making us stupid is melodramatic, however, we do still need to take the time to let our minds work so that we can continue learning and expand our minds. From your point of view google has helped us find information quicker, i personally love google but its just the quicker that questions some which ends with it seeming we've all become lazy. I find your writing very true and i'm sure they couldn't step back on a thing such as google. You're awesome and i <3 u! :)

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