Student: Peter Chastagner
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Students will pitch story ideas they are interested in developing. Participants in the story conferences will critique the story ideas to assist in the editorial process. Students will develop their story ideas into video stories for the TV magazine and extended written stories for the website.
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Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 13 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: It's really really important for everyone who wants to be a writer to spend time in English classes . . . If you are unable to communicate your ideas and what you want to communicate then you're missing an opportunity.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 12 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Journalism and blogging and all of that will stick with me for a long time.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 11 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I don't see myself living here in the near future.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 10 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I'm very interesting in traveling, being a travel writer . . . Seeing other people's processes and explaining to them my process definitely . . . helps me focus on what I do, brings it to the forefront.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 9 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Exploring different places of the island . . . to know more about the island and the University I interviewed a lot of professors . . . Things that I could go for years never knowing about if I was in [another department], but in the Journalism department I have to go find these things.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 8 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Most of my stories . . . were centered around things in this University . . . I did a lot of research about how the food came to Hawaiʻi and how it evolved in Hawaiʻi . . . This is learning about modern Hawaiʻi and why things are the way they are . . . Breaking apart stereotypes and really digging down into what the culture or the people . . . where those influences come from . . . It also helps you differentiate between what Native Hawaiians had and what we have now.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 7 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Getting different sources, different perspectives, how you deal with different perspectives and integrate them into each other, I think I've learned a lot about that.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 6 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Coming here and writing about things in Hawaiʻi . . . I struggle with finding my place within the culture and not knowing about the history and traditions . . . wanting to be sensitive to that . . . Not, maybe, having the strongest voice because of a reluctance to own it . . . Taking classes in Ethnic Studies in Hawaiʻi, History . . . a lot of my English classes we dealt with literatures based in the Pacific ocean region . . . just being here and talking to people has been the greatest help to me in understanding what I can write about . . . [Hawaiʻi-Asia-Pacific focus course] is helping me understand where I am geographically, and the past, and why things are the way that they are . . . it's super important as a journalist in Hawaiʻi to know all that.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 5 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Pretty much 100% success for me, for my writing, would be in how the reader accepts it . . . The better quality it is, the more readership . . . Getting a good view of the topics . . . really diving into the topics and trying to understand what I'm talking about.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 4 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Chastagner, Peter; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Every exploration where I was writing an article was me learning about something that I love.