Standing Ovation: NON-STOP NEWS

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

NON-STOP NEWS

"The President is on a mission, his cheif speechwriter, Jon Favreau, told me, "not just to change politics in Washington but to change the culture of Washington, and the media is part of it."

For me, I think that this claim is a very important one to dwell a bit of thinking and try and picture what is going on. This claim is located in the third paragraph at the end of the sentence. Ken Auletta is saying this about Obama and what he is trying to do through media. He wasn't only giving a heartfelt speech..there was a reason for it. There was something behind it, something that needed to be successful and heard.

I think that it is interesting that Auletta had mentioned this because the more i think about what he said, the more i agree with it. Obama isnt/wasnt just saying a speech but he was trying to somehow connect with his audience and make them think the way he is thinking through using the media all around us. I think that people should if they don't yet, start to realize things like this and be aware of what is going on in todays society and start thinking whether to believe these thing and apply them or to just ignore them.

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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), 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. I 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!