Welcome to Our Blog Conversations Beyond the Classroom!

Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation 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! I 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!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

I am who????

Greetings all, I guess I am the "old Man" in this class! I've been retired now for 3 years and figured it was time to further my education; I suppose one is never too old to learn new tricks. I was born in September of 1943, in Port Angeles, WA. My father was in the army in the Pacific Theater and I was 3 years old before I met him! I've lived across the pacific and Atlantic as well as traveling across this great nation of ours. During my families' travels I've been through 40 of the contigous state capitals and even traveled the old Route 66. While growing up I went to 13 elementary schools, 2 or 3 junior high schools and 2 high schools; one of which was in Frankfurt, Germany. After serving my time in the air force I got a job in food service and liked it so after 43 years of that it was time to retire and take it easier. That however got old very quickly and now here I am going to school! I wonder how long I can pull this off? Anyway, learning is fun and always educational!
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