Standing Ovation: jESSiCA's iNtRO.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

jESSiCA's iNtRO.

Hey there my name is Jessica Figueroa. I was born in Michoacán, Mexico. I came to the United States when I was only 5 years old and I have been raised in Bellingham ever since. I am an only child although I do have two half siblings that live in Mexico with my dad and his wife. I am a senior at Meridian High School and I am very looking forward to graduating this year. I enjoy meeting new people because I’m very use to it. I’ve been to about 7 different schools since elementary. I strongly enjoy listening to music; it’s one of my favorite hobbies. I work at a Mexican restaurant that my parents have recently opened on Northwest. I love to write but I don’t like writing essays, I mainly like free writing where I don’t have to have a certain structure or follow certain rules. I speak fluent Spanish and hope to work as an interpreter sometime soon. I am very shy at first, but once I get to know you I’m actually very outgoing. That’s all I have to say at the moment.

The kind of writing I use the most is texting. I text pretty much all day, every day. I also write essays for school since I’m still in high school but I usually hate writing those because we always have to write about subjects I’m not interested in. I text a lot of people all throughout the day it keeps me from being bored. I text at school, after school, pretty much anytime I can. Although texting is fun, a lot of the time I don’t use the correct grammar and that influences my writing when I have to write something formal for school. A lot of the time I feel like I don't make sense to others who read my writitng but that could just be me. I hope to gain a lot from this class and I'm very excited to see what this quarter will bring!

Hope to get to know each and every one of you!

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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!