Welcome!

Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + 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! We 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. We 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! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!

--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100



Tuesday, September 28, 2010

About me: Destiny Massey

Hello, my name is Destiny Massey, I'm 18 years old and graduated from Blaine High School earlier this year. I decided to go to Whatcom Community College to get my transfer degree in order to go into the Early Childhood Educational program at Western Washington University. I'm originally from Point Roberts Washington but some of you might not know where that is. I moved down to Bellingham about a month ago and living in between two places at the moment. I partly live with my brother over in Sehome and with my boyfriend near Grocery Outlet. What I enjoy doing on my spare time is, dancing, writing poetry, playing or watching pretty much any sport, running, learning about differerent fashions and cultures, shopping, listening to music, singing, and most of all hanging out with my friends and boyfriend. I'm also a very friendly person and love meeting new people and making new friends. I have a loving boyfriend named Nathan and a best friend named Morgan who also goes to Whatcom with me. I like to be unique and express myself through what I wear. You might also reconize me from the grocery store Grocery Outlet here in Bham I work there pretty much every other day after school. That's pretty much me, hopefully I'll get to know some of you and eventually become friends. :)
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