Blog Post 1

            Blog Post 1

               Hello, I’m Nicole Carver. I don’t write a lot, but when I do… I write to remember. I write to tell loved ones how I feel. I write to celebrate. I write to say thank you. I write to fill the blank spaces. I write to learn and to study. I write to bring joy. I write because writing is a challenge for me. I write to improve. I write to tell people about what I love. I am the kind of writer who struggles with writing. My brain likes math problems and science equations. It is not very fond of rhetorical analysis and punctuation. Even though I’m not fond of writing, I am the kind of person that will try hard to improve my writing as the semester goes along.

                As for the community portion of the class, the Harris essay really hit it on the head. He was saying that a community has numerous meanings and types. He focused a lot on the academic community with the universities. Harris was saying that the point of having so many different communities is so that students can be a part of the different communities even if they contradict each other. Communities are not meant to be apart for a little bit of time and then move on to another one. They are meant to be taken through life with you. I am apart of multiple communities. From when I was little until now I have developed a lot of the communities that I am still apart of today. I moved to Nebraska in eighth grade, so I still identify myself with the community that I grew up with. I also identify with the community of friends that I built in college. These girls that I have found here are going to be a community that will be with me forever. To be in a community is to be a part of a group of people that you grow up with, have something in common with, identify with, and you enjoy being around. The communities come from multiple parts of my life. Classes, friends, neighborhoods, family and church are where I have found most of the communities that I identify with now. They feel like communities because I feel comfortable and safe in them. Language and writing are a big part and different for the communities. As you talk to different groups of people, the way you talk changes. When Harris talks about Sylvia and Richard, it’s exactly what I’m talking about. He says Sylvia has three languages, even though they were not actual languages, she still talked about how she needs to learn the public language.

                These are my views about both aspects of this class; the writing part, the community part, and them together. I am glad to expand on these subjects as the year goes on. I’m also excited to improve my writing skills on my own and with the class as a community.