Standing Ovation: About Lizzie

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

About Lizzie

About Me:
Hi my name is Lizzie McMinn. I am in this class through running start, I take two classes here and two at Sehome High School. I have lived in Bellingham my whole life but my dad has a house on Lummi Island and my mom just bought a condo in Hawaii!! I have a younger 14 year old brother and a 1 & a half year old brother. I make my money being a nanny, it's basically my job. I love clothes, shopping is my favorite thing to do. I want to go into medicine somehow, I aspire to work in pediatrics or become a nurse practitioner. I want to live in Australia one day, I went there when I was seven years old and loved it.

During spring break I will be going to Guatemala for my third time to work with the kids at the school in Lake Atitlan and bring them 1,000 tooth brushes and we will also help build the new hospital because the old one got destroyed in a mudslide. I am very excited, it's a very eye opening experience and when I come home I am so much more thankful for things I never would have even thought about being thankful for me because they are just given to me - a house, clothing, toothbrushes, an education past elementary school.

Types of Writing I do:

I text until my fingers fall off
I write emails to my friends who live in Seattle
........that is all

I probably write 100 texts a day. I write to the mothers of the kids I babysit for to arrange times. I text my friends to tell them funny things that have happened to me throughout the day. I text my mom to ask her to do something for me or tell her when I will be home or where I am. I choose to text shorter messages because if I want to write something long an actual keyboard is much more efficient to write on and checks my spelling. This kind of writing lets me communicate with my friends, make plans and meet up with people. Texting gets in the way of me focusing my attention on more important things (my homework, my family, the people around me, a movie i'm watching, etc). If I could not text I would not talk to my friends as much as I do or be able to say something to someone across the room , even across the world -- without talking.

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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!