Student: Shellie Habel

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Writing Assignment Used for This Interview

Hanauma Bay Analysis: draft, final report, maps, sections, interpretation. Mojave Desert Analysis: 3 exercises, with draft, final report, maps, sections, interpretation.

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Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 17 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: You can practice all you want, but until you've actually done the real thing, that's when you get the really valuable experience.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 16 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: That's one thing in science that everyone hates: you have to cite every little thing. Taking a lot of Writing Intensives classes in a scientific major teaches you if you don't have those citations, people can't use your writing at all. Citing makes your papers more powerful... All of these classes have helped us learn why there is that scientific format, why it's useful, why we should do it, and how is the best way to go about actually writing it.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 15 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: [With] research audiences, they kind of already know the background... you can present your research as you did it. [For other audiences] it's kind of like writing a story versues writing a research paper. You really have to give good solid background on the overall picture when you're writing for general audiences or for the government, city, and state.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 14 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: I just wanted to experience somewhere different. I've been interested in geology before, and I came out here, and the geology program here is amazing, so I decided to enroll. The department and the professors are very humble and very smart and accessible. If you're interested in anything at all, they're very willing to help and very willing to include you in their work.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 13 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: Instructors [shouldn't] be pushovers. [When] you do these same assignments over and over. It doesn't really help you. It's just a lot of busywork. While these big long ones, where they expect a lot of you, you have to work all semester to put something together, that is what you're going to encounter in the workplace.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 12 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: It will remain with me, just that voice of Scott's. He always writes his little things like 'huh?' Sometimes when I'm writing I think, 'Would I get a comment on this? Yeah, I think I would.'
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 11 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: I'd like to stay here. Feels like home.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 10 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: I work in beach erosion. I help take care of the beaches. My main goal is to help the state make wiser decisions about land use... This class was about mapping, and a lot of what we do in coastal geology is make hazard maps for the state. Scott's classes are really helpful for giving us tools that we can later use in jobs.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 9 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: Any time you go somewhere like [a class trip], your bonds grow stronger with your peers. I had taken a lot of classes with a lot of them, but we had never bonded like we bonded on that field trip. Bonded through the observations.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 8 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: We don't really have those kind of rocks in Hawaiʻi... We don't have anything older than a couple of million years old, and the stuff we were looking at [in the Mojave] was a lot different than anything we had ever seen.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 7 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: It made me like the Mojave [Desert]... We were out there for a week. [Our instructor] would drive us to the field study. He gave us a topographic map of our study area and a gps. He would drop us off and say go do it... It was an adventure, it was very freeing... I had grown up very close to [Mojave]. I didn't like it just because it was a bunch of dirt and rocks... [My instructor] told me it was going to be a great experience... and it was great.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 6 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: I haven't quite succeeded at what I previously mentioned: perfectly creating a clear picture. I really have to work at it, I have to read it and read it and read it.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 5 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: I think I'm pretty strong at seeing the broader picture and breaking it down into clear chunks and leading a person. If I hadn't included those pictures, that paper would've been 10 pages longer. It's really easy to show someone a picture. See for yourself. This is what I say. You can see for yourself. That's way easier than describing the whole thing and have the same effect as the figure. Success would be for the reader to go ahead and read my writing and get everything that I wanted them to get out of it and not get confused. And I would want them to forget about the writer and just think about what I'm trying to describe. It's like a good cameraman in a show. If you have a good cameraman, you'll never think about the camerawork. teacher def of success: I think the same thing.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 4 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: [The instructor] is a tough grader. He grades like a boss. He gives you an assignment, and it's almost like he's a boss saying, 'Here's what I want you do. Go do it.' He doesn't tell you to put a scale, make it pretty. He just expects you to do it, and if you don't, he'll mark you off... But a boss wouldn't tell you every single thing either... The great thing about Scott is you can turn in something terrible and he'll give you something all marked up, and he'll take points off, and he'll write funny snide comments... and you learn to see that in your work and almost question the things that you're doing, without him even saying it, so when we get jobs, we won't have to turn in something cruddy to our bosses.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 3 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: It's very different to write research [rather] than a journal. Going to a real life setting, it's almost instinctual to write like a journal entry. It's hard to get your mind in the gear to write like a scientist... So you have to not write passively, and also remove yourself from it... That was the challenge and taking all these notes and drawing a clear picture.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 2 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: [Our instructor] gave us an assignment and let us go for it. We could work together as a team or do it individually. The class dynamic was really free and open.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 1 of 17
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Habel, Shellie; Henry, Jim
Brief excerpt from interview: Some things lend themselves to being place-based much better. There's a woman out in West Oʻahu teaching physics or math who is teaching celestial navigation and currents so it's all tied in.

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