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!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Schick

A.      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfzI_NcET-c

B.  We believe that this commercial definitely breaks through the clutter.  In a hilarious way it seems to stick in your mind.  Even if you don’t understand in the beginning you definitely understand it for the second time.  We also noticed that the use of narrow casting was present, in that it seems to focus on a certain age group and a certain gender.  They use objects around the focused person to imply the specific use of the product.  It’s selling a certain image that women should uphold, so that throughout the day the idea of this product might keep popping up in your mind.  Because it’s driven into your subconscious to be that way.

C.  It puts into the minds of consumers the need for cleanliness.  It also shows the lack of mindfulness for cultural diversity.  It’s limiting, not reaching an international standard, it seems to be very judgmental.  It sells a certain lifestyle not leaving room for decision making.  It just pushes the “western way”.  One negative effect of this commercial could be the undermining of a woman’s self-confidence.  This could possibly lead to shyness in certain situations; a woman might not be as personable or open in varying situations, leading to loneliness.


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