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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



Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Commercial Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bRSM4EbLFw&feature=channel

This is a hilarious commercial. It starts with one guy eating Doritos at a gym. Then another guy comes in and puts some in his mouth but before he chews, the guy holding the Doritos says he snuck out of Tim's locker. The other guy immediately spits out the Doritos and says, "Tim loves Doritos, we gotta hide this." Then a Dorito comes flying like a throwing star and hits him in the neck. Then Tim comes at the one guy left standing in samurai armor made of Doritos with a Doritos weapon screaming at the top of his lungs and then the commercial cuts off.
So I think that since the setting of the commercial is in a gym, it puts the idea into some one's mind that fit people eat Doritos so it can't be too bad for you. In this commercial, the characters are all funny people. They represent the company and that plays into how so many people want to be the funny guy and not boring or serious. So it makes people think, whether they know it or not, that Doritos will make you a funnier and more likable person. Even though most people consciously know that it won't, it still has your subconscious mind believing them. People want to be funny and likable because they believe the myth that if you are funny and people like you then you will have a happy life. This is not always true though. The commercial also has some Asian culture in it. Tim is in samurai armor made of Doritos which the viewers instantly recognizes and looks into their minds for all of the stories and legends and movies about samurai that they have experienced. They remember how they felt when they were listening, reading or watching the legends and movies. That is how the commercial sells.
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