Welcome!

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



Monday, October 4, 2010

commercial ad. rob

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4RZY0s25E&feature=related

The ad I picked was a  Levi's commercial. In this ad, it shows a guy who looks like hes getting ready to go out. He was in his city apartment and initially in his underwear and t shirt. As this man pulls up his pants the city streets and a very beautiful lady come up as well. The man suddenly pulls his pants back of as if he were in shock of what had just happen. He then pulls back his pants up as he realized what will happens next. He then buttons his pants as he is ready to go and puts his arms around the girl while they leave to go out. This ad  is usually portrayed for the men and you will soon find this to be true as a women with eye appealing looks appears on the screen. The hidden message here that the consumers already understands is that because the guy chose this special kind of pants he will automatically get girls. The reader quickly understands that “the pants make the man” and that girls greatly notice that and by owning a pair of these jeans, girls will notice and come to you instead of you (guys) chasing after the girls.


Rob Lester Delacruz
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