Interview

The sections if reading assigned were about interviewing. To begin it gives good strategies about how to properly set up an interview with someone. Asking is one of the most important aspects when giving an interview and it is specifically talked about in this section of the book. It says that the proper way to ask questions to get the most information is to use open questions. Open questions have no single answer and allow for more conversational exchange. The next part talks about how to listen to the person you are interviewing so that you can ask better questions to what they are already talking about to get even more information or to shift the conversation the way you want. I believe that these sections of the book will help me to conduct better interviews in the field.

Interview

The “interview” essay was a very interesting piece of work. It is set up almost as what seems like three different essays. The beginning brings in a lot of historical information about bowling. After the beginning it goes on to describe a Thursday night at a bowling alley. On this Thursday night there is a women’s bowling league. The environment is described as well as several people within the space. In this section there is some interaction between the author and the women at the bowling league. One of the women described and talked to, is Patty who is in her 60’s. The next section is titled “All in the Family”. In this section a quiet Monday night at the bowling alley is described. Here the author talks with one of the workers Carol and learns how the bowling alley is owned by a family and how Carol loves bowling and works there part time. Overall the essay was well written and interesting. The only aspect that I found weird was the historical background about bowling in the beginning.   

Group Presentation

Our groups topic for the class presentation is incorporating visuals into documents. So far we have gotten a lot done in terms of planing and organizing our presentation. We have four sections that can be talked about so each person in our group is able to have time to talk. We have planed to complete our PowerPoint presentation on Friday so that we do not have to get together over the weekend. I believe that over all our group is off to a good start and should have a great presentation for next week.

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