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, March 1, 2011
The Story of Citizens United v. FEC (2011)
This I had to share, It hits the nail on the head and explains allot about what politicians are "SELLING" and who they are selling it for. please watch this and if you like it go to YouTube and look at more under "about stuff"
We rail against that which we do not understand and strive to defeat that which is greater than us.
Many years ago I was given an insight behind the decisions made by our leaders in the land of the free. What was seen was a disturbing image of a people governed by 'The Wicked Above' while receiving counsel from the 'Deceivers on Their Right'.
We've all seen the cartoon story of a king whose chief advisor was a snake. I thought it was just a story and am surprised by the thought: It's more than that!
The larger conversation that we have engaged here about the various stratagems used by Advertising shows clearly how corporations use the “art of persuasion” to influence much more than our buying decisions.
As corporations are given greater voice in our government it won’t be long before the only voice heard in our great land will the one of they who shout the loudest.
Hey Bart and Michael--If you haven't already, you might consider reading each other's final essays from last quarter. You took different approaches but are exploring very similar concepts. I recommend the reading! Cheerio! Mary
We rail against that which we do not understand and strive to defeat that which is greater than us.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago I was given an insight behind the decisions made by our leaders in the land of the free. What was seen was a disturbing image of a people governed by 'The Wicked Above' while receiving counsel from the 'Deceivers on Their Right'.
We've all seen the cartoon story of a king whose chief advisor was a snake. I thought it was just a story and am surprised by the thought: It's more than that!
The larger conversation that we have engaged here about the various stratagems used by Advertising shows clearly how corporations use the “art of persuasion” to influence much more than our buying decisions.
As corporations are given greater voice in our government it won’t be long before the only voice heard in our great land will the one of they who shout the loudest.
Hey Bart and Michael--If you haven't already, you might consider reading each other's final essays from last quarter. You took different approaches but are exploring very similar concepts. I recommend the reading! Cheerio! Mary
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