Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 3 of 18

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2015

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Brief excerpt from interview: I often use in-class reaction papers, to an article or a paper on a topic, say climate change. Or recently, on these huge data centers  and how much energy they are drawing, and it's usually dirty. Most students hadn't even heard of that—they're putting things in a cloud, but they're actually adding to a problem . . . They read the article, write in class, then give it to a peer for feedback, then hand them in to me, so that I can check it off that they did it . . . The more formal writing assignments, they have a week to do. They will research a topic, get some primary literature, summarize it, and answer a question I've given them.

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This item includes a segment of an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2013, and in this clip the interviewee is responding to the question 'When you designed [a designated writing assignment], what goal(s) did you have for student writing performances and class dynamics related to them?'

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place-based writing, writing across the curriculum, writing in the disciplines, Writing Intensive courses, scholarship of teaching and learning, writing pedagogy, general education requirements, kind of learning, identity, challenge/solution, socialization, in-class paper, reaction paper, articles, environmental issues, peer feedback, minimal grading, research paper, primary literature, summary, question, prompt, in-class discussion, student engagement, reaction papers, climate change, data center, carbon footprint, dirty energy, cloud computing, peer feedback, research writing, summarizing, classroom dynamics, class discussion, voicing opinions, classroom culture

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Turano, Brian. 'Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 3 of 18.' Interview with Jim Henry and Dawne Bost. Scholarspace. Sep. 2015. Web.

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Duration: 00:01:37

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Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences 236: Renewable Energy

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