Student: Brendon Sunada

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Writing Assignment Used for This Interview

You will write a two-page Celebration of Learning every week and share it in a small group at the beginning of class. The objective is to take charge of your learning and to celebrate what you learn every week. Hopefully, this will allow us to start the class on a positive note, and you can also learn from each other. [student writing is in response to an assigned reading]

Using bullet points, write down five main ideas and briefly explain them.

Focus on ideas and concepts learned in this course.

At least one of your points should state your learning pertaining to ethics.
State an issue pertaining to ethics.
State an argument from two sides of the issue:
Arguments for the motion.
Arguments against the motion.
What is your position on this issue?

Sometimes you may use the following format as an alternative, depending upon the issue:
State an argument from two sides of the issue:
Arguments for the motion.
Arguments against the motion.
What is the perspective on the issue from the U.S.?
What is the perspective on the issue from Japan.?
What is your position on this issue?

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Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 14 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I understand how their {korea[ writing system works, I can read things and understand some of it . . . My Korean level, my Korean is a very low level Korean now, I can get directions, order food.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 13 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: As you meet people in the class, one of the things I always ask is where you are from . . . Once you get into a management issue I'm always interested in people . . . I've seen a lot of people from Hawaiʻi who are horrible writers, and in English at least, and the reason for that is of course because they are so heavily influenced by speaking Pidgin their whole life.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 12 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: When I posted pictures [online], people said they thought I would Samoan or something, because I am from Hawaiʻi . . . mother while in Las Vegas being complimented on her English . . . in Florida once [noticing different meal practices] . . . roommate a gay Mexican from South Chicago . . . removing shoes when entering house . . . very few Asian people from America working in Florida, rather from China, Japan . . . and very few who were straight, so instead of being the guy from Hawaiʻi, I was the straight Asian guy . . . in Korea, so segregated [by gender] from when they are young . . . taking girls shopping yet not dating . . . what is Hawaiian and what is Brendan . . . small town/big city dynamics . . . more collective than mainland U.S. yet more individually distinct than one of the more collective societies such as Japan, Korea.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 11 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Being from Hawaiʻi . . . we try not to cause too many rifts . . . I think my writing is relatively aggressive.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 10 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: One of the things that really surprised me in the course was we were watching a video on negotiation . . . one of the things that [Prof. Bhawuk] showed us was that actually a lot [of negotiations] were informal . . . over drinks, after work, where you are allowed to say whatever you want because you're drunk . . . [when travelling] you do take a little bit of Hawaiʻi with you, because some of our mannerisms just can't be dropped.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 9 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I have not been able to get any scholarships because of past indiscretions.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 8 of 14
(2015-12-02) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I think so. We 'celebrate' the learning, and you have to be in class to celebrate together ... you cannot get any points if you are absent ... you cannot celebrate alone ... in this way we had to share ideas, to help us see how many different points of view you could see ... he emphasized that everyone has a point of view and you have to respect it ... and to really THINK about it ... he would periodically move people about, to get people to meet new people and hear different points of view ... [I see my major differently because] I now see Professor Bhawuk as a guru of Management ...he takes a humanistic approach to management, and I work in a place now where they do not take such an approach ...'leave 'em alone and whack 'em' is the approach ... but people are resources so you develop that resource, you develop the person
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 7 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: A little bit ... we're more collective than your hard-line America, but we're more individual than, let's say, your China or Japan.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 6 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I realized how much language and culture are really closely tied in, and also realized that unless you're intimately involved with culture for a very long time, you don't really know about the culture . . . I should keep an open mind.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 5 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Iʻve never felt myself to be a very strong writer . . . although I do fairly well writing, I don't really consider myself to be a very strong writer.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 4 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I found that I don't need to rewrite as much, or I don't rewrite . . . everything I turn in is usually a first draft, I don't do drafts anymore. I find that there is not really a need for that, although when I read my work I do see I could do some improvements, but at the same time my thought process has been organized enough . . . whereas there is need for that, and also the technology makes it so that you can just cut and paste . . . so the writing process has become a lot much more streamlined . . . I don't take three drafts, you know, or three days to write a paper.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 3 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I was already motivated in his class . . . I would say it motivated me to look deeper into the material, and do a little more research, because a lot of people just watch the video and they write, and that's it;
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 2 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Prof. Bhawuk's writing instructions are . . . until you get a grasp of it, is very vague, he leaves it open so you can go at it in so many different ways, and that was the major challenge for me . . . [the ʻwhat I learnedʻ paper] was difficult because how do you really put into 10 pages, what you learned? . . . it's really hard to describe all that in a paper.
Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 1 of 14
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Sunada, Brendon; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I am of a little bit of Japanese ancestry . . . my focus of studies is going to be in Korea, but anytime you have any sort of comparative between two different cultures, that always interests me.

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