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

Aloha and Mahalo for Your Kokua


Strange how I'm starting over again. I feel like I've come so far and here I am at the beginning. My name is Stephanie. I moved here from Honolulu last year for school. I wanted to get residency so this is my very first quarter enrolled full time in collage! I'm so thankful to be here. After getting my certificate in teaching English as a second language, about 6 years ago, I went to south east Asia for a couple of years to teach English and see the place and eat the food. Oh man special fried bananas are to die for!
Finally I got tyered of living on 75 cents a day and came home to Honolulu to try and get a job that pays. Turns out all a certificat got me there was a job at the groshery store getting 50 cents more an hour then the kid with the high school deploma. So I enroled in Kapiolani comunity collage in Honolulu but my family had moved to Oregon and the coast of living was too high. I couldn't handle school with the two full work loads it took just to buy food. So I dropped out and moved to Bellingham. My boyfriend had gone to school here and he was stoked to move back with me. Let me tell you, I'm glad to be here too. It's so inexpensive!
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