Standing Ovation: My Take on Non-Stop News

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

My Take on Non-Stop News

"Just six years ago when George W. Bush was finishing his first term, there was no Facebook, no twitter, no YouTube; dozens of regional newspapers and TV stations were highly profitable and seemed, at least to themselves, inviolable. Between 2006 and 2008, daily online news use jumped by a third, which meant that one-quarter of Americans were getting their news online. As media outlets multiply and it becomes easier to disseminate information on the Web and on cable the news cycle is getting shorter, to the point that there is no pause, only the consistency of the web and the endless argument of cable"

When reading this quote, I start thinking about times before the infamous Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Most people would just get their news off TV stations such as CNN or the various local channels available, but nowadays it seems like the internet has taken over the news in a big way. The news is now interpreted into new sheds of light and most people get a better sense of understanding when the news is dissected and analyzed. I know that people on YouTube tend to speak their minds when it comes to any subject and news is one of them and the consistency of this nature is very great.

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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!