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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + 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! 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…).

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! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!

--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100

Thursday, September 30, 2010

AD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0285S1NyE8

The title of this advertisement is called Crazy Turtle Top Beer Ads. In this ad it’s obviously for a certain type of beer that they’re trying to promote. What I noticed about this commercial is that it was made in Brazil and their culture was shown through as well. What you also notice is that they use a turtle, which is known as one of the slowest animals on the planet, to go after the beer, and enhances the turtles speed to show how badly it really wants it. As soon as the turtle gets to the beer before the human it starts to kick it around like you would in football which we know here in the United States as soccer. If you haven’t realized already is that in Brazil football is their biggest pass time. They use football in this commercial to draw the viewer into thinking if I buy this beer then I’m indeed a true football fan. Of course in reality their wont really be a thirsty turtle crawling after a can of beer looking to drink it. But if you take a look at the artistic view of the video is doesn’t just make you want to buy the beer it makes you realize how much work and thought was actually put into this video. It actually has a hidden humor message behind it’s commercial. For example when the music starts playing when the turtle and man chase after the loose can of beer it kind of makes you want to laugh a bit because of how silly the situation is. They also made the part where the turtle starts kicking the can around like a football humorious. It’s funny because it’s a turtle, and who knows of a turtle that can play football? The uniqueness of this video makes it pop out in comparison to other commercials you’ve probably seen.

2 comments:

charlottesessionsSeptember 30, 2010 at 2:30 PM
Charlotte and Shane

2.)the ad wants us to surrender to drinking there beer, because beer "makes you have more fun and energy". the reality is beer makes you slower and makes your judgement worse.

4.) the assumption is that everyone wants to drink there beer but in reality truck drivers cant drink because there driving an a turtle does not have the body mass to handle beer.
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AndreanaSeptember 30, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Question 7) The people, classes, and areas of life are left out or silenced are people that dont drink alcohol, or dont play soccer, or that arent necessarily familiar with the Brazilian culture.
Question 9) the style of presentation contributes to the meaning of the text by showing that at first the turtle is sluggish, but at the last second gets addrenaline and starts juggling around the man.

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Practice Introductory Post, Please!

Please Post an Introduction (for practice) by Monday, Sept. 22nd so that we can all be prepared for the first blog post assignment coming up next Thursday.

Here's what to do:

Once you've accepted the invitation to become a contributor to this blog, you will notice a "new post" tab at the top of our blog. Click on that and enter your text. (I suggest you first type in a MW doc and then copy and paste to our blog to minimize the risk of losing your work.) Then, post!

For your first post, please:

Write a brief informal introduction of yourself. Say whatever you’d like about yourself to us—your audience & collaborative learners. Check out Mary’s introduction if you need some ideas about what to say about yourself.