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



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Daelynn's Introduction!

Hi!
My name is Daelynn... I recently graduated from Nooksack Valley High school and now I am taking partime classes here at Whatcom.  I am hoping to earn my AAS (associates in arts and sciences) and eventually transfer to a 4 year college, most likely Western, but I also have been considering the University of Washington, go Huskies!  I enjoy cheerleading; I cheerleaded at my old high school for 3 years.  I was one of my squads main flyers (people that get put up in stunts). I have to say that I love to fly, and I have flown in a lot of different stunts; I love basket tosses!  I'm hoping that I can cheer for a semi-pro team and eventually work my way up to becoming a member of the NCA.  I also enjoy reading (mostly V.C. Andrews...), I love to sleep in late and I love shopping.  I've had this weird obsession with Tinkerbell, ever since I was little.  So yeah, that would explain why a majority of what I own is Tinkerbell themed..... its a little childish, but I can't help it! I just love her!  I met her at Disneyland a couple of summers ago and pretty much died....haha, just kidding, :) but I really did meet the "real" Tinkerbell. 
I work at a small floral shop in my hometown of Everson, and I also work at Hollister Co. in the mall.
I have 2 cats, one named Gizmo who is 17 years old but acts like she is way younger...and the other is named Flora.  I also have 2 dogs, one is a Shitzu-poodle mix named Oscar, and the other is a Husky-golden lab mix named Charlie.  I love to take Charlie on walks when its nice outside...hes the sweetest dog anyone could ask for!
Me flying a basket toss.....and yes, that face I'm making is pretty hilarious...

Flying in an extended arebesque during basketball season 2010
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