Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Animal Science, clip 9 of 12

This item includes a segment of an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in Animal Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2014, and in this clip the interviewee is responding to the question 'Why do you think it is important that students in your classes engage with our place(s) through writing?'Brief excerpt from interview: It's very important that students engage. Without engagement the learning is shallow. I think it's very important that students be able to... communicate complex concepts effectively through writing... [Writing practices] definitely improve observation, lead students to think of what questions they have