Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Upper Divison English, clip 3 of 12
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2015
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Brief excerpt from interview: I had them do a series of assignments, because I always find it frustrating that you get the place-based assignment at the end of the semester and then there are problems they haven't addressed like how to quote or how to work with critics, so I had them do various assignments. One was a personal narrative to establish connection to place and another one was finding the moʻolelo of place, but the one to me that had to do with critical analysis was dealing with one mapping critic and raising a cartographic kind of problem. They came up with amazing kinds of really engaged, analytical... short essays. I was reading Thomas King's 'The Truth About Stories' and I was thinking about how powerful his narrative is and that that can be a different kind of critical writing that the students can learn how to do. The writing assignments were to build towards the fifteen page paper... They also did presentations... I noticed they were very good about bringing in visual elements into their presentations and orally explaining. The material we're reading is also based on associative kinds of narratives that are still making critical points. I really wanted [students] to really think about their audience... I encouraged them to go to Board of Land and Natural Resource meetings or Land Use Commission hearings because when people present testimony, your job is to really reach out to your audience and if you don't do that, it doesn't work... We also read a lot of testimony... I think that was very helpful to them to see the passion with which [people testify].
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This item includes a segment of an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in Upper Divison English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2014, 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, identity, educational context, kind of learning, sense of place, assignment sequencing, scaffolding for student success, course planning, different kinds of assignments, discursive norms in english, developing student skillsets, how to quote, how to use critics, presentations, visual narrative, personal narrative, connection to place, moolelo, cartography, cartographic problematizing, student engagement, analytical essays, thomas king, stories, critical writing, narrative writing, associative narratives, understanding audience, passion, testimony, hawaii board of land and natural resources, hawaii land use commission, assignment sequence, critics, intertextuality, use of sources, citing sources, summarizing sources, engaging sources, personal narrative, personal experience, talk story, presentation, visual, oral, associative narrative, narrative as criticism, testimony, audience, government, mauna kea, waianae
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Fujikane, Candace. 'Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Upper Divison English, clip 3 of 12.' Interview with Jim Henry. Scholarspace. Sep. 2015. Web.
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Duration: 00:03:27
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English 470: Studies in Asia-Pacific Literature (Mapping the Literatures of Hawaii)
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