http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpGlzsx2rk
The commercial “Too Short” starts off with “I See Girls (Crazy) by Sing Studio B in the background and a middle aged father looking man oiling the fencing around his family home on the back patio. He’s doing the typical cliché of a husband: yard work. The man finishes with his oiling and heads toward the clothesline as he is looking for something to wipe his hands on. He notices his daughter’s nice clean white mini skirt hanging to dry; pulls it down and proceeds to wipe oil and dirt all over the front of it. His hands are now clean though, he is thinking. He then walks through the backdoors and throws the, what was once clean and is now stained, skirt into the dirty clothes hamper. Now, we move on to see the teenage daughter (probably not more than 16) looking through the hamper as though she’s looking for something specific. She notices her white skirt in the hamper; picks it up and gets a disgusted look in her eyes. She brings the skirt to her mother who feels the stain while slightly turning her head toward the room where the father is sitting comfortably in a chair reading the paper like he’s innocent. The daughter stands there with an attitude in her body with one hand on her hip like “what on Earth, dad?!” The music stops and the commercial proceeds to say in a lady’s voice (you do not see the lady) “Tide with ActiLift technology; helps remove many dry stains as if they were fresh.” The commercial skips forward where now the daughter is coming down in her skirt (perfectly white; imagine that) with a big smile on her face, says goodbye to her mother and rubs her hand on her father’s head like a “ha-ha” and runs out the door. Obviously that didn’t stop her from going out. The lady’s voice still in the background and the screen displays: “Style is an option. Clean is not.” The message I believe this commercial is portraying is that no matter what you do to your clothes, you can get the stains out and make the clothes if they were brand new by using Tide with ActiLift.
WELCOME
Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation 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! 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. 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
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. 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
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