Standing Ovation: April's Introduction

Monday, January 10, 2011

April's Introduction

Hi there! my name is April Wilhelm. I am 18 years old and just graduated June of 2010 from South Whidbey High School located on Whidbey Island where I grew up. I have lived there my entire life until I moved here to Bellingham in September. Whidbey is a small Island about two hours away. Many people like to describe it as a hippie town, which I can’t really argue with, but its one of those places where when you live there you literally know everyone and you can’t leave the house with out seeing someone you know. It’s a very tight community. This did make it hard to move away to somewhere with no familiar faces. I was accepted to Evergreen State in Olympia, but decided to wait a year to finish my AA which I started in high school doing running start. Next year I hope to attend either Seattle University or Evergreen State, where I will study Business, Psychology, Philosophy, or environmental science. I only have one sister, who I really look up to, who is now getting her masters in acting at the actor’s studio in New York. I am a huge coffee addict and I can’t live without it! I spend lots of my time Crafting and making things, I have been a serious horse back rider for 10 years, but recently have had to stop, so I just try to find things to fill the void. I learned how to play guitar but I’m not very talented, but I have done a bit of acting and singing as well, which I enjoy a great deal. I’m pretty easy going, just looking to make some new friends and enjoy my time here in Bellingham.

I do a good amount of writing, which mostly consists of notes. I like to write down things that people say, ideas, quotes, things that catch my attention. I like to write down what I’m feeling when I don’t want to talk about it, because it helps me understand my feelings better and when I write it down I can go back to it later and reflect. It really helps me let out steam when I’m angry or frustrated to just write. There are times when I am bad at communicating so if I didn’t write I think that I would just blow up with emotion. When I’m in class enjoy writing opinion papers, just because it’s a chance to say what you think, no judgments.

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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!