Student: Bryson Aiu
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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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Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 15 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The instructor will write more than you. You get it back and are blown away with what did I do wrong? It's not because he's overly critical or wants to crush your dreams. [It's more about] this is what I've seen in the scientific world and you have to step it up to match it... In hindsight, you are appreciative of that. That was pretty mean, that was pretty harsh, but I get it.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 14 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: [For] most of the Writing Intensives, the main assignment was always to produce, for us, something what would be publishable: a scientific paper... that was challenging, the hardest paper I ever wrote because I've never done that type of thing before... It was a crash course in scientific writing.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 13 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I do know of people who, have [the syllabus] right here and have it while they're working. For me, that's excessive. I get what they're doing; they're trying to nip it in the bud. [My revisions] always came after the fact.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 12 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: You hear about the legends of Pele on the Big Island and how people correlate it with how actual geological events happened: Maybe this legend here talks about this eruption, and there's hearsay evidence that points it out... it's still debatable. I know the story and I know about that eruption. I never bothered to connect them, and somebody else did.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 11 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: This course, and other Writing Intensive courses, as far as forcing me to write and forcing me to look at why I wrote, will always be crucial to me... the Writing Intensive, and reading other people's work, it forces me to look at myself: why did I say this? Will someone else get it?Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 10 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Yeah, [staying in Hawaiʻi] is the goal.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 9 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Ideally, [I'd like] to get employed somewhere here that is somehow related to my degree. The geology dept. doesn't pump out many graduates a year. The jobs related to geology here are mostly construction or state... I've had job interviews where they say do you have writing samples?Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 8 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Now [when] I drive around Oʻahu, I see stuff that I never bothered to pay attention to... As far as my appreciation for my surroundings or Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi, it has only increased from taking these courses... Because of this course, I feel my education is a lot more valuable.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 7 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: This course was pretty much my only real exposure to fieldwork: getting comfortable with it, learning what I'm comfortable with doing, what I can do, what I shouldn't do, what I wear, what gear I carry.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 6 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: [One] weakness is procrastination... [Also] my sentences are either one paragraph or three words.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 5 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: [Success includes the] ability to put everything into one paper: pick what is crucial for the outcome that I want for the paper... and go do it.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 4 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: That kind of stuff [like comparing a research paper from the 60s to one written last year] is always intriguing... What I've come to learn in this field and most scientific fields [is that] discoveries are being made because of technology.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 3 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: We had a hard time finding previous resources [for] a research paper. Some of them were locked up [behind paywalls]... Condensing what we did see into a not-overwhelming paper was the trickiest part... when I did have a word count challenge, it was bringing it down under the word count.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 2 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: We're all friends to begin with. It was a safe and encouraging kind of environment... Out in the field, we were helping each other, working together to solve the problem at hand, mapping, whatever the assignment was... As far as proofreading, everybody was like 'hey you want to check this real quick.' There were times where we were paired up and there's one conundrum out there that we're all stuck on, we all sit there and stare at it and figure it out.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 1 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Aiu, Bryson; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: It was a required course for everybody. It is a capstone. I was curious, so I asked some people if theyʻd had it.