Hello Everyone,
My name is I-Chun Findley and I am one of the many returning freshmen. Being away from school for eighteen years, I was very nervous about this new journey. My weakness is my English academic writing so I thought this class, English 100, is going to be the "turning point" for me to overcome my fear! English is a beautiful language but has been a hard one to learn. I know I have a lot of work to do with the 12 credits I am taking this quarter. This is a great start as my goal is to become a Certified Massage Therapist by the end of 2012. After getting through the fist week of school, I finally feel more comfortable about my surroundings.
I was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, moved to United State in 1994. I must be one of the most fortunate people in the world to have a loving husband, wonderful daughter, incredible parents and sisters fully support almost all of my decisions. My daughter is 9 years-old who is a competitive figure skater. I am so proud of her and pleased to see her accomplishment in such a young age.
I worked night shift at Haggen for the past twelve years until this January, during the day I tutored Chinese or volunteered at my daughter's school. After experiencing some symptoms of "sleep deficiency", I thought it's time to think outside of the box and really make some career changing decisions. So here I am! More ready than ever, starting a new chapter of my life!
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!
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