Advertisements today target you, and not just you but who you are! They hire physiologists, professionals to tell them your inner thoughts and desires that you yourself may not even realize. Companies are looking for what exactly makes you tick, what is it that will get you to not just buy their product but completely fall in love like you would in a relationship. The video “The Persuaders” shows the inner plan of companies and the advertisement agencies they hire.
With advertisements latterly on every corner of every street, we are living a world made of marketing. Even in your daily TV. Programs advertisements are there, maybe even in the soda the actress is drinking. In the program they explain how in the movie “I Am Sam” has the main character working in a Starbucks, and then has their coffee being advertised throughout the whole movie. This idea was also displayed in the movie “Castaway” where Fed Ex was also a main component, while even having the actual main CEO of the company play himself in the movie. These are things in advertisement I never really looked at this way, just thought well that’s cool that they bring real things I do into the show.
Welcome to Our Blog Conversations Beyond the Classroom!
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!
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