I am Aubrie Todhunter I am 17 and a senior at Sehome High School. I wanted to do running start this year because I feel it will be a better fit for me than high school. Althougth I am not doing full time running start, I am at Sehome in the mornings because I don't want to miss out on my senior year completly. I really have no idea what I want to do with my future, I am hopeing Whatcom can help me figure that out and point me in the right direction. So far I am happy with Whatcom. Our class is really nice and I think I will have a better understanding of English through this experience.
English has never been my best subject. I don't like writing papers very much, I have a hard time getting my ideas organized and putting them down so that anyone who reads it could understnd it. The writing I enjoy is journaling, and texting. Even though texting does not really help develop my english skills. I do love to read though. I like books like Harry Potter, Of Mice and Men, The Outsiders, and don't judge me but... Twilight. My point is I like a wide range of books.
I did sports up to high school then I got burnt out on basketball, volleyball, and track. I still like watching sports though, football it my favorite. In my free time I like to hang out with my friends and family, read, watch movies and sports, journal, and stay out of trouble. Anyways, that is me! You all seem really nice! I am looking forward to getting to know all of you. This class will be fun!!!
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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