Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 2 of 10

This item includes a segment of an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in Journalism at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2013, and in this clip the interviewee is responding to the question 'What motivated you to design writing assignments with a place-based component?'Brief excerpt from interview: [Assigning place-based assignments] makes it more real for the students. We're trying to talk about the real world. We're about doing real stories about our community