Standing Ovation: Non- Stop News

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Non- Stop News

What really made me understand this article more is when the author told us that George Bush 6 years ago didnt have facebook, twitter, youtube, dozens of regional newspapers and TV stations and etc. That made me realize Obama is more exposed to the media alot more than previous presidents and the media is watching his every move and people around the USA can know what his life is like and what he is doing since they can have access to online newspapers and such. Ken Attuela is saying this in his essay and almost seems like he thinks Obama can't help being so exposed to the media. Later on in the essay he indeed starts talking about how reporters and such are to blame for this overdosage of media to higher end people especially. I think that the author is right, George Bush didnt have all of these reporters on him like flies like they do to Obama. Obama does have more pressure then Obama with being on Americas side and pleasing them and I think reporters need to back off a bit of Obama and give him space to breath and think.

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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!