Month: August 2017

This summer I started having fun, rooting all sorts of plants.  So, far I have a good collection of white gardenia, avocado, rosemary, hawaiian chili pepper, white tiare, pohinahina, peppermint, green onion,uala (sweet potato).  I started collecting little succulent plants.  One sunday at windward mall’s farmer’s market. I purchased 3 little succulents for $11.  Because the man selling them, told me how easy it is to grow others.  Just pluck a leaf from it and stick it in the soil and water once a week.  Cactus plants need very little water and love lots of sun.  So far I’m doing good with the succulents and actually plucked two leaves, stuck it in the soil.  One died and one is still living.  Then I scored from a garage sale, 3 bowls with 3 to 5 succulents in them for a buck each.  My most recent score, was in my botany class.  I was blessed with a pakalana vine and I’m rooting it now.  Live amazing 24/7! a hui hou

Something that I found interesting in chapter 2 was the power of you versus we. I never realized how effective and different a message could sound to the reciever by simply using you instead of we. I believe the reason for this is because people like to feel included. When I hear a message that speaks to me, i’m more engaged with message and are more likely to respond or react to it. If I hear we, I might think the message is just some vague message sent to everyone. The lesson i’m taking away from this is if I want to capture the receiver or audiences attention, make them feel included and using the word you is just one good way to accomplish that.

During the first day of class, we were split into groups of four and were tasked with building a tower using a strip of tape, spaghetti sticks, and a marshmallow. The purpose of the activity was to see how well we could communicate with each other. I thought this activity was helpful and insightful because it was the first day of class and no one knew each other yet. It was interesting to see how well each group would do considering the circumstances. I thoroughly enjoyed the activity because even though we didn’t know each other within our group, we were able to communicate effectively enough to pull off the win!

So far I am confused as to what to do for this class.  I am new to the whole blogging and clogging thing and don’t quite know what ideas or topics I am going to be writing about. Wanda has been very helpful explaining the assignment and letting me know what is required of me to do the best I can this semester.

Here’s to another interesting semester at WCC and business writing intensive.

Question 1:

Brian is attending a seminar on workplace efficiency and must make a presentation on this topic when he returns to work. Brian can increase his comprehension by keeping an open mind, listening for main points, taking selective notes, and…

I selected A because I didn’t read the response fully unfortunately. I should have selected B because, in order to retain an open mind, you need to not pre-judge a speaker based off his appearances. If you fall into that trap, the chances will increase that you may ignore possible good points the speaker presents due to your assumptions based off of their appearances.

 

Question 6:

Profiling the audience for a business message helps the writer

The correct answer should have been B: identify the appropriate tone, language, and channel. By profiling the audience, you will find out the best way to communicate to the audience as well as their level of understanding regarding the topic of your presentation. By doing that, you will be able to better relay your information to the audience while also increasing audience retention of your presentation.

This is a pretty funny movie.  But pretty good for a Will Smith movie. LoL…

I failed to understand the last assignment and did not get back to my classmates in a timely manner, sorry for that Wanda, and Rose.  I did retype and answer all the questions I was suppose to and e-mailed them this morning.  I will do my best to understand the assignments more clearly in the future.

Before class started on the first day I did not know what to expect I thought this class would be time consuming and strict based off the old syllabuses that I saw on Windward’s website.  Once I got into class the vibes were pretty chill not like the strict tone I was expecting.  Then the marshmallow tower challenge it was the classic me where I do not participate in groups much at all.  Then in the second day we also went into groups again but this time I participated a little more.  Overall, I think this class is going to be alright a lot more group work than I thought there would be and there is a lot more writing in this class as well in comparison to English 100.

• Hi guys, today I want to talk about the feeling of having a blog for the very first time. The idea of having a blog was a little strange to me, because before when I thought about blogs I used to think that it was a site where people used blogs to bully others or hacked them. Having a blog has changed my opinion about blogging. Now I think about it as a way of communication, a way to interact with my class mates. I think its really cool how we can comment on each others blogs, and share our opinions and thoughts about the class discussions or homework. 

  

Here at Windward Community College, there is definitely a presence of chickens on our campus. But, then again after hurricane Iniki, all our islands have been overrun by them. I believe that Kauai island has adopted this fowl as their mascot as chickens and roosters are everywhere. Like the Waikiki pigeons these birds live on and roam our school grounds. Students or visitors that are not really animal lovers find them to be a novelty. Most people instantly “share” their food with the chickens and I am guilty of feeding them too. However, their droppings are a health hazard and more recently the chickens have been “snatching” people’s food. They do not fear humans, are complacent to exist with us, have become aggressive and brazenly enter our buildings. The most compelling plea to everyone is that human food is not good for them. They and our environment would benefit if the feral chickens would forage for insects instead. Cock a doodle doo!