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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

Friday, February 4, 2011

"A Vision of Students Today"

In the video “A vision of students today”, created by Michael Wesch and his students of Kansas University of spring of 2007 , conducted a survey of what the real situation of students today are; and what it is to be a student in this generation. The purpose of this video is to create a message that shows nothing but facts of students today; several of what caught my attention. Students pay for classes, yet they don’t show up, or buy books that the students won’t even open to read. Another thing that caught my attention is that many students are studying for a career, which probably jobs won’t exist by the time that they graduate. Students face so many problems now days, which they didn’t create but yet they have to take responsibility for them. Many of the concerns of these students are that they are not getting what they were looking forward to. Students using hours on end using technology, and not using it on a beneficial way to their learning, are really a concern, yet students have suggested that it is the only thing that can save them.
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  1. EvelynFebruary 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM

    This is true! ive bought books that i didnt use, not cause i didnt want to but because the class or teacher didnt use em.

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