Hi everyone, my name is Kassandra Campbell but i go by KC. I've lived in Bellingham my entire life, which would be 16 years and i love it here. I love the people that I've gotten to know, i love the area that I've grown so familiar with, and I love the house that I live in. I am at WCC for running start for this year and next year until i graduate from Sehome. My plan afterwards is to finish out at this collage and then to take a year off to travel to Europe. Traveling and visiting new places is one of my most favorite things to do. I have been everywhere from Canada, Oregon, California, New York, Kentucky, New Jersy, to Mexico and recently Austrailia. I have very supportive friends and family and I am so excited to be at WCC to meet new, great people and enjoy the time that I'll be spending here.
I live in a small house that is filled with my mom, dad, and two younger sisters, along with three cats, two dogs, and a bunny. Some of my family friends make fun of us that we live in a zoo since we have so many animals. I'm not in any sports but I enjoy skiing, swimming, gymnastics, and volleyball. I am hoping to be able to ski a bunch this winter and maybe learn to snowboard. My favorite subjects at school are English, Art, Spanish, and I hope to take a physiology class later on and maybe possible get a degree in it. If you have any other questions for me I would love to answer them, and I't would be great to get to know you better too!
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
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
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