WELCOME

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!


--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100

Friday, January 14, 2011

Kristy Morrison's Bio

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain

My name is Kristy. My friends and family often refer to me as Kris or Krik. And to two out-of-the-world adorable boys, I’m known as mommy.

I have my share of sob stories, but don’t we all? I’m living for today while learning from my past. If I hadn’t been who I was then, I wouldn’t be who I am now. It’s been an uphill battle but I really like the person that I am today.

I became pregnant with my oldest son (Kade) when I was a sophomore in high school. While he was learning how to walk, I was learning how to be a full time mother, full time high school student, and full time employee at the age of 17. Fast forward six years , while he’s now in kindergarten learning how to write and my youngest (Elijah age 2) is learning how to talk in sentences, I’m still learning how to balance being a single mother, college student, and employee. Between the insanity of it all, I still find time to do other things (ie: breath.) I’m an aspiring writer, lawyer, Jedi Master, and basically a million other things I’d love to be.

After 23+ years, I am still learning something new about myself every day. I am extremely passionate about law and politics which stemmed from when I was involved with teen court, mock trail, and a "We The People" competition in high school. I have been blessed with some of the most amazing people in my life that a girl could ask for. I’m a huge fan of the late 80s. I'm love a plethora of musical genres, but British indie and heavy metal have a special place in my heart. I'm completely addicted to caffeine and taurine, most often consumed in the form of a red bull, but sometimes I'll change it up and grab a monster. I tend to over think things that don't matter and don't think enough about things that do. I love to read. I'm pretty fluent in sarcasm.I crave change, yet despise it when it happens. I can be the epitome of dysfunction at times. ...the end? :)
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