Standing Ovation: Introduction

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Introduction

My name is Wade Bofto, this is my second quarter at Whatcom . I moved up here after high school to escape the trouble that seems to swallow everyone who stayed. I want to get into Western and be a teacher, but this seems to change every day so at this point I am just going with the flow and getting my GURs completed.

It seems I text a lot, because that is the most relevant form of communication, at least to me. I text my friends from Wenatchee to stay connected. My mom texts me to make sure I am okay everyday still. My dad and I text about his life and about golf and things we saw on tv. My younger sister and I text about the NBA and how our teams and favorite players are doing. I text my best friend from Wenatchee to find out about his new daughter, and her crazy mother and the things they are going through. I have made a few friends since I moved up here, I text them to see what is going on this weekend. As lazy as it sounds, texting is the main way I communicate these days so its definitely when I write most.

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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!