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 21, 2010

Bryce Jungquist Introduction. Mic Check, One, Two, One, Three



Hey everyone, My names Bryce Jungquist,
Im a underground independent rap artist and founder of Washington's Premiere Rap Battle League. WPRBL for short, is a huge battle rap movement in Washington State. Video taped and shown all across the world via Youtube and Facebook. I chose to goto Whatcom to obtain an Associates In Business and working full-time after high school just wasn't for me. My plan's after graduation will be transferring to another school to get a Bachelors Degree in Recording Arts. Hip-Hop is a major influence in my life if you can't tell already. Back in high school i didn't take school seriously, was to busy partying and skipping school to go make music. Reality hit me at the end of my senior year, two choices lay before me. Goto college straighten up or work for the rest of my life. You can usually find me writing lyrics for tracks, hanging with friends or blazing rap in my car. I also like to freestyle which if you dont know, is thinking and rapping off the top of your head. A little bit of my background, grew up and live on the west side of Mount Vernon, Washington on a potato farm. Got a brother thats twenty-one thats works for my dad after he dropped out of college. Don't be afraid to come up and talk to me always open to meeting new people and getting kids interested to come rap battle.
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