Student: Alana Eagle
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Final 5-page paper on a renewable energy topic, including these topics: What did you learn this semester? Did the writing intensive format help you learn the material and improve your writing? Did the selection of guest speakers add to the class? Finally, did the class affect your personal choices?
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Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 15 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I would tell myself that you do not have to be an excellent writer to take the class . . . take it as a tool to improve your writing . . . if you know that the professor is worth it . . . I did see him give a couple of tens because people learn and you reach that point . . . i think there are unreasonable professors out there who will not give As, but I have not had any yet.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 14 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Growing up in Hawaiʻi, we have such a fragile eco-system, and thinking of wastewater, we have a very limited source of water, and when I read the article about disposing of wastewater, with the chemicals, or the minerals in it that were not healthy for drinking water . . . that blew my mind, because it was kind of a ʻwe will do it until we get caughtʻ . . . that can just destroy the whole island . . . we know how valuable our fresh water and our salt water are . . . I had heard about fracking here and there, but that article revealed the water issue.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 13 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: This semester I am just a week or two in, and so far I notice a lot of the teachers making the same points . . . some people are more economy-based, some people are more environmental-based . . . neat to see the different dynamics of my professors . . . it is nice because I am so immersed in it . . . last semester was not like that . . . two Writing Intensive courses this semester . . . one course offers a non-Writing Intensive section, and I do not need the Writing Intensive, but I took it . . . she is very place-based . . . Rosie Delgado, she is Hawaiian . . . aquatic pollution . . . incorporates a lot of how water works in Hawaiʻi . . . Hawaiian terminology . . . how the Hawaiians lived and how we are living here . . . other course was more scientific, and I did not do well in my Intro to Biology course, so I wanted to take the one with passion.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 12 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: You cannot unlearn what you learn through writing . . . It is such an involved process .. . . physically . . . you create a final product of words and those words together have to communicate something . . . that process, you cannot really unlearn it--you can forget it, but it is going to influence my decisions in life from here on out . . . When you brought up the paper I wrote on fracking, I do not remember a lot of the little details of it, but I remember the process.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 11 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: When I left school before, all I wanted to do was travel, because I am from Hawaiʻi . . . I wanted to see everything out there, I had the worst case of island fever . . . I did my road trip, lived in other countries . . . I came back. Now, this is my home base, I feel secure here, grounded, and since I feel rooted here, that allows the opportunity for anything to happen . . . I felt like Alaska was very similar to Hawaiʻi, even though very different in terms of temperature, the people there . . . were very friendly with each other, they all knew each other . . . we would go hiking, fishing, it was all about the environment we were in . . . in SanFrancisco, it was all about being in a city . . . I was going to school and did not explore, kind of stayed in the same places that I got comfortable with . . . in Alaska, the locals took us in, they were so warm . . . When I was in Alaska, I did not really think about sustainability.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 10 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Graduation is coming, and I know I need to set a goal, and I have not been able to figure it out yet. I want to focus on spreading awareness through visual media . . . I made a documentary for my final project in an Ocean Economy class, and I loved it . . . I was the only one who did a video in the class--everyone else did a ten-page paper . . . we chose a policy and had to focus on two effects. I chose the expansion of the Marine National Monument in the Pacific remote islands, and how it affected the commercial fishing industry, and how it affected conservation . . . ten interviews edited into fifteen minutes . . . in Final Cut Pro . . . it is hard to connect other people's words with your own in-between . . . you have to take other people's words and cut them up into this story arc to keep people interested . . . I developed a methodology . . . going through the clips and writing down keywords . . . post-it notes on the wall . . . each interviewee I thought of as a paragraph . . . In my future, I will probably not write as much with a pen and pencil, as in school, but grants, and contracts, and stuff like that, and a lot of e-mailing, I am sure.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 9 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: My relationship with Hawaiʻi has changed because knowing more about how I consume energy and everything that I do to consume energy has definitely changed me. And coming from an island, being isolated, and knowing how expensive energy is and why has really changed my habits. I went around the house and unplugged all the phantom power . . . we put switches on our extension cords and tvs . . . we unplugged all of our phone chargers during the day--those little things . . . we have cut our electricity bill by more than half . . . Before I took any sustainability classes, I was very excited . . . very progressive . . . but halfway through the semester I found myself bummed out . . . learning more about climate change in detail, learning about energy consumption and fossil fuels, and trying to communicate the things I was learning in school to my friends and family . . . if I cannot communicate these things to the people around me, how is the rest of the world going to understand . . . I was demotivated . . . But I came back up and I am excited about the classes Iʻm taking: Global Environmental Issues, Global Environmental Change . . . Aquatic Pollution . . . Public Policy Survey Analysis . . . and Climate Change . . . To see the professors motivated to share the information helps.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 8 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: After that course I do know more about Hawai'i, because our struggle here is imported energy. And we had to learn not only about what kind of renewable energy resources are being sought for the future, but also about every energy source that we have and have had . . . A lot of them seem ridiculous that we are still using them, and trying to get more of them--for example, oil, or nuclear energy. Why are we using nuclear energy when we can't store the leftover? People know that food has to be imported, but they don't think as much about energy. They could buy an electric vehicle, but they are still plugging it into their house, which runs off of oil. My parents have solar panels and mom drives a hybrid.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 7 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: This course definitely did change me. When I went into the course, I went in fearful about what I had to do with all the writing, but now, at the end of the course, I actually look forward to reading scientific articles, and writing responses, because I realize that is how I actually absorb them, and learn . . . there were a lot of PowerPoint slides, and that stuff I do not remember . . . Knowing when the papers were due, and having one every week, sometimes I liked it, sometimes I hated it . . . You're in school to become a better person, to be smarter, to think differently . . . so of course, that influenced me as a person . . . I know more about communicating, about what I can do and how I can improve . . . I feel like I could go on and on about that one!Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 6 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Eagle, Alana; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: It takes me a while to read through stuff . . . and actually write stuff out . . . I can't just sit there and write a paper in an hour . . . I usually read through the article really quickly once, then read through again with a highlighter, highlighting the main points, and then I do physically make an outline, then turn the outline into my paper . . . I felt like my creativity in describing things was not very strong . . . and my grammar--I hadn't been in school for seven years . . . I still don't feel that strong, but I feel like I know I can do it.