Standing Ovation: Devin's Intro

Friday, January 7, 2011

Devin's Intro

Part 1) Heyyy, my name is Devin Kassel, pronounced the same as ‘castle.’ I’m 19 years old & graduated from Bellingham High School back in June of 2010. I live at home with my grandma, aunt & brother. I’ve tried moving out on my own on numerous occasions, but always made my way back to the “nest.” I’m one of my grandma’s “favorites,” so I get babied a lot. Who wouldn’t want to move back? I work as a cashier at the good old Wal-Mart, so if you see me in khaki pants & a blue top, I’ve either just came from work or have to head there after class. I am taking my pre-req’s here at Whatcom & eventually transferring to Bellevue College. Or that’s the plan anyway. I am hoping to become an ultrasound technician. I’d rather play, than work, which I’m working on finding a happy medium for. I’m ready to get started & be on my way with being done with school. I know it’s going to take some work, but I’m prepared for it all.
Part 2) I spend a lot of time on my phone and on the computer, but what other “kid” my age doesn’t? Although texting is one of my most frequent ways of writing, I’d have to go with writing letters to one of my very best friends. I try to write a little bit everyday and within a week, I’ll complete one letter. Due to certain circumstances, writing letters is one of the only ways to communicate with my friend who stays in Forks, WA. It’s a way to keep him updated on what’s going on in my life and everything around me, as well as expressing my feelings. It also helps me to take a break from the “cruel” technology and can be extremely relaxing.

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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!