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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

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Commercial Post


In the commercial that I have chosen for my blog post is “The World Is Just Awesome” by Discovery Networks. I find that this is on of just a few commercials that I get into (must sing along). This commercial hits home for me I love the world and love to be in nature. The use of all the different places in the world and the different jobs, really connects with everyone. The way this video just draws one in with thoughts of what is next what far off place will we see next. I find that the Discovery Channel is tring to get us to watch there network with this commercial, and I think they did a good job hooking the consumer with the commercial. A lot of people find the Discovery Channel boring and stay far from it, but when the commercial like this comes on that person must stop and watch it. I am sure there is some people that just don't care about commercials like this, but they must not have feelings. The ability to connect to the consumer is always the perpus of the commercial and if it does that's a job well done. A commercial like this Discovery commercial is not the typcal commercial it doesn't have a traditional product that is being sold. I know it wants you to watch their channel but it use a passive approach by showing the beauty of the world. They use some characters from the show they produce, but it is not targeted to a specific demographic. I find that this commercial is just to promote a clean and healthy world. So get out and injoy it in the rain, sun and snow.
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  1. Bart BoeckholtFebruary 23, 2011 at 12:15 PM

    I think that this add hopes for us to surrender the Idea that people every place are having a good time doing what they do. It transends all classes of people.

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  2. DcarlsonFebruary 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM

    The music matches the theme of the video which is a universal love for the earth. Everyone is singing together and having fun which links the whole world together because people from different race, class, culture, and beliefs are all represented.

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