Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 9 of 10

This item includes a segment of an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in a sophomore honors seminar at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2015, 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: Writing skill is mandatory. Good writing skills, and it doesn't mean that you're writing long; just whatever you're writing is clear and articulate and communicates what the student wants to say. In terms of a sense of place... independent of the writing... is that also the flip side is the oral communication skills... Maybe young people are less text-based, but that doesn't mean they're not reading