Standing Ovation: About Taylor

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

About Taylor

Part 1) Hello, I am Taylor, I have lived in Washington my whole life and more than anything hate rain it is probably because I am so used to it and just want to experience something new and different. Throughout my life, I have moved very many times and feel that I am a flexible person because of that. I enjoy many things but most of all I love spending time with my family, which is hard when my family is as big as it is. I have four brothers, three of which are married, two have kids, and I also have three stepsisters and one stepbrother. Other things I enjoy doing are spending time with friends, shopping, watching movies over and over, and more that I just cannot think of at the time. Once I graduate from High School, yes, I am still in High School, I want to travel for a year and then go to college, after that, well, and I’m just not sure what I will do. But as of now, my dream jobs include a lawyer, sports agent, pediatrician or an accountant; I have not made my final decision and I am not sure when I will. I live the life of a normal teenage girl.

Part 2) Types of writing I do most are:
Texting
Facebook
Papers for school

The first two on my list go hand in hand, because I do the same time of writing in both of them, but they are completely opposite from the third. When I text or talk to my friends on Facebook I write like a fifth grader, I spell things wrong, add cute little smiley faces, use wrong punctuation, and write in CAPS LOCK all the time. I feel that this is a bad habit that I am starting to do more often and sometimes show up in my writing. This is a bad habit that I need to put an end to now!! I use facebook and text way more than I write papers for school. I have been able to notice that my writing has changed since I have started using these things. My goal for this class is for my bad habit to not show in my writing.

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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!