Student: Jacob Mayer
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You will be required to compose a weekly journal in which you will explore your reactions to or thoughts on the readings in class discussions. I will also provide you with some thinking questions for each journal assignment to help stimulate your discussion. Entries will be submitted each week and must be no less than two pages in length. Final written paper.
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Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 14 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Best way to become a better writer is to always write. Reading also helps, because you increase your vocabulary and see how other people structure their sentences.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 13 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: How we were brought up, in America, would have gotten a lot of weird looks if I hadn't known [about cultural practices]. It's rude in Samoa to stand up and shake somebody's hand.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 12 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: This course has influenced me a lot. I guess you could say it was life changing. This is where I'm from, my ancestry.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 11 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The best place to learn about Samoa is in Samoa. I know New Zealand has really strong Pacific Island classes.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 10 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: [My plans include] traveling through the Pacific to learn as much about the different cultures and how they interact with each other. I fell more in love with Pacific Islands and Samoan courses while taking Political Science courses simultaneously... I'm not a real big fan of writing for large projects... Wanting to be a professor here, you have to do a lot of writing.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 9 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I'm thinking about becoming a teacher in Pacific Island Studies, possibly, so when I take classes like this, I like to see how they teach it, for ideas. I am Samoan, so I'd like to concentrate more on that.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 8 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: [I learned] a little bit more about Hawaiʻi... and Micronesia.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 7 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I read a lot of books by Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Beck, people like that. They're European writers, and it comes from their perspective. Pacific Islanders, they didn't really have a voice until Albert Wendt started this off. It made me have a lot of pride in who I am, where my people come from. This class helped me become a better writer to structure my ideas better.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 6 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I was kind of a one-draft kind of guy. I like to hand-write it out first, then type it up. So my first two drafts will usually be handwritten on paper... My final two drafts will be copy and paste and move stuff around. It looks like a horrible mess, but I know where everything goes.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 5 of 14(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Mayer, Jacob; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I like Powerpoints because you can add pictures to it. It's visual, you can see it, whereas if I just stand up and read my paper, it gets kind of boring. This class helped in being able to structure what I wanted to write.