Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Urban and Regional Planning, clip 5 of 13

Abstract

Brief excerpt from interview: Organization is strong . . . had to submit an outline, and I'm very organized and logical . . . no peer review during the process . . . I really like doing presentations. [Success for me] in writing is when you come to a new idea at the end of it, as opposed to just writing about facts . . . when you actually explore an idea, and by the end of the paper, you, as the writer, have actually discovered something . . . [Success for her instructor in writing]: we had a rubric, she gave us a general outline of what the paper should be . . . she wants us to learn something new, explore an idea that we previously would not have thought of . . . another student had more of a focus on the economics of [rail]--he wasn't an architecture major, but I'm not sure what his major was--mine was more focused on how it would change the lifestyle of people.