Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geography, clip 3 of 11

Abstract

Brief excerpt from interview: For me I think the critique was actually the hardest part because in [the instructor's] syllabus she doesn't want us to just say the positives about [a reading] but kind of like the things that the writer could have improved or the things you didn't like about it. I think you're not used to that I guess like when you're coming out of high school and stuff because you're kind of supposed to take reading as being gospel, sort of like you're not supposed to critically evaluate reading, so I think it was kind of a different skill. I'm okay at doing the positives about reading 'cause you've always kind of done that. Praise all the reading that you're reading because you normally do that in high school but kind of being a bit more critical in terms of how this person organized the different things.