Due Date: Tuesday, March 15
To Submit: Attach as a Word file or type directly into the eCampus “Assignment” folder
Please respond to the following prompts.
- Reflect on your interview as a research method. What kinds of information and were you able to gather through your interview that proved to be most valuable later when you were drafting your essay? What kinds of questions seemed to yield these types of answers? Conversely, what kinds of questions seemed to be least productive in the interview, and why do you think they proved to be unfruitful? What kinds of details about the person were you able to glean through observing the person or listening carefully to the person talk during the interview? After the interview ended, what kinds of information, if any, were you left wishing that you had gathered through the interview?
- Other than your interview, what types of research did you do to learn more about the person you were profiling or the public issue you were writing about? Where did you go to find this information? In other words, what resources did you use to locate information, and what search terms—or some other relevant strategies—did you use? What types of materials and information did these research methods yield?
- Describe your process for drafting the profile essay itself. What key decisions did you have to make as you sorted through all of the information you had generated (e.g., your interview transcript, your observation notes, other research materials you gathered) about the person you were profiling? Please be specific about these key decisions and explain why you made them.
