Standing Ovation: Introduction to myself

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Introduction to myself

Hello everyone, I’m a new student to Whatcom Community College. I’ve been living in Bellingham for the last seven years now and have grown very fond of the “small town” feeling of it. I think part of the reason I like the slower paced feel of Bellingham is because I spent the majority of my youth in Port Townsend, a town where the graduating class is usually around one hundred and fifty students. Before I moved to Port Townsend I lived in Ontario California but I think my parents got tired of painting over the graffiti on our house ever other week. (There was a hint of gang activity in our neighborhood.) For the last seven years I’ve been bouncing from restaurant to restaurant learning recipes and cooking for hungry patrons but I’ve found that the restaurant profession if quite taxing on the body. Another hobby of mine aside from cooking has been working with on or around computers so once I decided I no longer wanted to cook for a living I enrolled here in WCC to get a computer science transfer degree.

As far as writing is concerned I don’t do a whole lot of it. The most consistent form of writing I do would probably have to be texting. I text on a daily basis and don’t really know anyone who doesn’t. I use texts as a means to keep in touch with old high school friends that I don’t have luxury to see on more than just the occasion, to ask my roommate to pick up milk on the way home, to check in with my girlfriend if I’ve been out for a while. I use them all the time. (Except in class of course) One thing texting could get in the way of is driving I suppose, which is why I don’t do it. I honestly cannot even think of how my life would be different without it which is a little ironic because I don’t think I sent a text until I was seventeen years old.

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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!