Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in American Studies, clip 13 of 15

This item includes a segment of an a student interview in a Writing Intensive course in American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2013 and in this clip the interviewee is giving more details about the background to an assignment.Brief excerpt from interview: This was an assignment [where] we had to find a representation of indigenous people that framed [them] in a certain way, and then discuss how are they being framed, what's going on... To analyze and deconstruct, we could choose what we wanted to focus on. I just focused on the whole page and what it was advertising, the titles, descriptions... I enjoyed doing this assignment because you come across it so often, but a lot of times you don't have an opportunity to critique it and take it seriously. You just have to accept it and keep going, but this time we got to deconstruct it and see what is going on