Instructions for Interview Group
Brainstorm
The Webfolio project requires each student to conduct three
interviews in connection with your I-Search paper:
- Interview with a peer.
- Interview with a person of your parents' generation.
- Interview with a person of your grandparents' generation.
It is up to your group to come up with good interview questions
and strategies. Filling out this worksheet should help you
conduct high quality interviews.
Group name:_____________________________
Date of Appointment with Instructor:_______________________
Discussion of possible different interview purposes:
For instance, are you trying to find out what your interviewee
thinks about your research topic's challenges/failures/success,
or are you trying to find out what your interviewee has experienced
in his or her life? Note: if your research topic is a person
who is not a public figure and not known by the interviewee,
you obviously won't be able to ask the interviewee many specific
questions about your subject; but you still could present
"scenarios" that involve your subject's challenges/failures/successes,
and then ask your interviewee to comment and connect to the
scenarios. Another purpose of an interview might be to find
an I-Search topic (but the interviewer would still need to
prepare a good deal more than just the question, "What
should I write on?). And so on.
List of possible interview questions:
Interview 1:
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Interview 2:
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Interview 3:
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List of strategies for ensuring the interview is
comfortable, smooth, and thorough:
List of Web addresses consulted in researching the
"art of the effective interview":
Description of interview format issues (e.g., how
to indicate different speakers; how to indicate the time and
place of the interview; etc.):
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