{"id":13796,"date":"2016-03-02T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockhaq.com\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:57:43","slug":"english-student-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/?p=13796","title":{"rendered":"English Student Interview: Sam Brookes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Welcome to our English student interview. This is part of a series of interviews we’re running with Rockhaq pilot students. Although we’ve just relaunched the Rockhaq community, the project was first piloted in 2011-2012 with students from colleges in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. We’re amazed to see that some of these original pilot students have returned to the new community, and to hear that they missed it when it was no longer around. We thought some of you would like to hear how Rockhaq helped a pupil studying A Level English, hence this English student interview.<\/div>\n
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One of these pilot students is Sam Brookes, who joined the Rockhaq community when he was studying A Level English at Regent College in Leicester. This makes him the ideal candidate for our English student interview! We have more coming up with Music and Media students. We featured Sam in a case study<\/a><\/strong> during our pilot. In the meantime, we caught up with Sam to ask what he’s upto now and what impact the Rockhaq community had on him from 2012 through to 2016. We’d also like to say a big thanks for Sam’s contribution to the community over the years, and we’re genuinely pleased to welcome him back \ud83d\ude00<\/div>\n

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[tw-divider]English Student Interview: Sam Brookes[\/tw-divider]
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\n[tw-accordion-section title=”Q1. When and where were you first introduced to the Rockhaq community?”]
\nI was introduced to the Rockhaq community through my college back in 2012. My\u00a0English\u00a0teacher knew I was interested in writing in my spare time and told me that she had invited Rockhaq into the college and that they were accepting writers.
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\n[tw-accordion-section title=”Q2. How much effort did you put into writing before Rockhaq?”]
\nBefore Rockhaq, I was writing mostly in my spare time but because I didn’t have an outlet or audience for my writing, I often wouldn’t finish what I started, and when I did, I didn’t do anything with it. My grammar, punctuation and spelling were OK, if a little careless.
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\n[tw-accordion-section title=”Q3. And how much effort did you put into writing after Rockhaq?”]
\nAfter Rockhaq my spelling and grammar improved. I learnt the importance of spell checking and writing for an audience. Rockhaq also inspired me to take my writing off my word documents and onto my own blog<\/a>.
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