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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

ford commerical



At the beggining of this commercial you see a ford truck carry a chevy truck up a mound of rocks to prove a point that ford is better than chevy. After that you will see another ford truck carry a chevy up the mound of rocks while also towing a dodge truck. This advertisement is set on getting people to believe that if you buy the ford truck that you will be buying the best truck out there. Now I will have to admit that it was pretty impressive to see that, but you have to wonder if the chevy truck can pull both the dodge and ford truck or if the dodge can pull both the ford and chevy truck. I myself drive a chevy truck and believe that what it can tow is not all that important. I mean yes if u want to carry a heavy load you will want to be able to, but that is very unlikely that you would have to do it so often that that will determine which truck you buy. I believe that you also look for gas milage on a truck and how smooth it rides or the safety ratings on the vehicle. If you relate this back to scholes vision of the umpire being rewarded with a budweiser, that is just stating that budweiser is the best beer out there and you want to be awarded with it. Its just like the advertisement for the ford truck stating that ford is the best truck you can get when there is a wide variety of trucks that all do the same thing, get you from point A to point B. Now a days who knows what truck is better, they are all being designed to haul a heavy load and trucks are just getting bigger and bigger and burn so much gas.
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