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



Sunday, September 26, 2010

Ian Wells Intro

Hello, my name is Ian and I currently got back from an amazing concert in Seattle. I finally saw Primus, if you've never heard of Primus well you're in for a treat. Anyway, i'm 21 years old. I graduated from Bellingham Technical College in 2008 with a culinary arts degree. I've worked at a few great restaurants since then, Canlis in Seattle, Nimbus in the Bellingham Towers, Ciao Thyme in Bellingham. I love to cook and prepare elegant dishes but I'm in the process of finding something new to wet my whistle. I finally went to Europe this summer and it really put everything into perspective. It's great traveling to another country learning their history, customs and overall look on life. Europe is intriguing, they have an amazing form of public transportation, great foods made from scratch, interesting people who have a lot to say whether or not you want to listen. I loved being there and hope to return.
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