Standing Ovation: Carr's two most important claims

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Carr's two most important claims

Claim #1: "I'm not the only one."- Carr then begins to go into detail about how his friends are also affected by the Net, because at the beginning he was only talking about himself. But there are many more people the Internet is altering.

Claim #2: "Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also had described how the internet has altered his mental habbits."- Carr tends to back up this claim by refering to Friedman about he can no longer sit and read a long book, so it is not just affecting his Internet reading, but also his book reading. In other words, his life has now changed because he can't read like he used to.

By: Jared Eckert, Harmony Hawley, and Sarah Benne

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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with 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), we 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…J).

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! We are really excited see how far we can take this together!