Welcome to our Eng 101 Blog “Composition for Conversation”! The title of this blog refers to the purpose of the blog post assignments for class: 1) to contribute and share our understanding of and response to the texts we study this quarter, 2) the expectation that each of us becomes a “conversant” or active reader of these course texts and 3) to establish a live, active reading audience for your academic writing in Eng 101. 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? How can you aid in your peers’ understanding of these complex texts? 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 101, you will become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. 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 future academic or job-related endeavors you take on in the future which will require you to write to a specific audience for a specific purpose. 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!
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