Standing Ovation: About Britt

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

About Britt

{part 1}Some call me outspoken, some call me quiet, others call me Brittney! I am a Whatcom Community College student; full time! I absolutely love being able to choose the classes that I take! I have never really enjoyed the concept of going to school, but have mostly done very well. School, a place that is quickly becoming my second home, but I would rather be here than at a dead end job, going nowhere! I recently moved to Bellingham my senior year of high-school. I willingly moved here from Everett, WA where I was born and raised a city girl! Coming from a split family I now live with my mother and stepfather, whom are both my heroes and inspirations! I am going to school to become a paralegal in family law. The rough divorce not only my parents went through included me in about 99.9% of it! The drama, the fights, the bulls**t that no 5 year old should be able to remember, the evil stepmother/Cinderella spiel, the continued he said she said, I want to be able to affect at least one person’s life in a positive way. My senior year I raised just under $3000.00 for cancer research and that is something that I am very proud of, and will cherish forever! I am an athlete of many sports, but one that is a favorite; volleyball. I am unable to play any sports at this time, not by choice, but from an accident that has disabled me from a lot of what I consider to be life’s “finer things.” I am a fun, outgoing, loud, and maybe over the line at times girl, but can be a serious if in that setting. I tend to be a little shy, but will soon open up! I love getting to know new people: LETS CHAT J

{part 2}The type of writing that I absolutely love is writing letters to get my feelings out; I may never give the letter to the person I am addressing, but it helps me to let out the feeling that I am having toward the person, whether it is good or bad. I also like to write papers that let me put a life experience or give me the chance to share something new with people.

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Welcome

Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with 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. I 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!