Student: Scott Kaʻalele
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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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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 13 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: I liked the way [the instructor] ran her Writing Intensive class: it was about the discussion of writing more than anything else. I think students would find that refreshing. It [being place-based course] might have helped us ground it so that we could transgress the regular classroom thing. [The instructor's embodiment] helped ground us in wherever we were.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 12 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: I still have papers from her class.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 11 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: If I have to go somewhere else, you go where you can teach... If I have to take what I know about Pacific literature and go somewhere else, I can do that, but I'd like to stay here.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 10 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: I want to teach... I would like to do what kumu kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui does. We're dropping the Hawaiian perspective on top... Writing to get to a goal now.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 9 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Really got a sense of islands connected by the ocean. Albert Wendt is close to me (unlike Steven King)... I had to shift what I thought was literature... Up until a year ago, I was pretty much gonna teach Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 8 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Definitely. Even down to, I can't remember which character, but... talking about how he and his wife show affection... how you express intimacy in Samoa... so I got those little subtle kinds of things.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 7 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Looking at issues from different directions, and criticizing your own way of thinking.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 6 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: You want to get better, and you need help. I want[ed] all the credit for this really good writing. Now, I'd rather have the argument extended in a really good direction, and have someone else there with me.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 5 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: If I read [something intended to be funny] out loud, and everybody laughs, that's successful to me. I hadn't met anyone like that [Samoan woman getting her PhD] up until that time, and it was great. I think the final product was not that big a deal to her.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 4 of 13( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: [The course] helped me open up and talk about my writing... it planted a seed that everybody's opinion is actually very valid; people from different perspectives have equal values in their opinions.