Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 12 of 15

Abstract

This item includes a segment of a student interview in a Writing Intensive course in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2015, and in this clip the interviewee is responding to the question 'Regardless of your plans, will this course or the writing in it remain with you? If so, how?'

Brief excerpt from interview: You cannot unlearn what you learn through writing . . . It is such an involved process .. . . physically . . . you create a final product of words and those words together have to communicate something . . . that process, you cannot really unlearn it--you can forget it, but it is going to influence my decisions in life from here on out . . . When you brought up the paper I wrote on fracking, I do not remember a lot of the little details of it, but I remember the process.