Thursday, October 13, 2011

October 13th: What are good interviewing techniques?

At the beginning of class today, we were to turn in our final draft of our rhetorical analyisis. Before we turned in our papers, we got about ten minutes to look over our drafts to make any last minute changes. After turning in our papers, we discussed our next writing assignment. The next project we are writing about is an arguement essay. For our arguement essays, we need to have three to five sources, plus an interview from the person of our choice. It is important that we pick a topic that we enjoy and are interested in, so that we can argue our topic thoroughly. We want to be knowledgeable on the topic, but we want to be able to further explore the topic in depth. This must be a topic that you care about, because you need to argue the topic in a three to five page paper. After discussing the arguemental assignment in class, we went over a powerpoint that talked about interviewing. The powerpoint titled, "Positioning Yourself as a Researcher," talked about different position types, researching people, types of questions to askd during an interview, and learning how to listen. Following the powerpoint lecture, we got into groups of two and interviewed each other. Both students were to come up with a list of questions to ask one another. After finding out about a student in class that we had never talked to before, we wrote reflections on the interviewing process and what we found out about the other student during our interview. The interview with each other was helpful, because it gave us an idea of questions we should and should not ask during an interview. Learning about closed and open ended questions was helpful, so in our real interviews, we do not ask too many closed questions that end with "yes" or "no" answers.

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