One-on-One Interview Assignment: Part Two

After you have finished posting and printing your edited Q & A interview, you may complete part two of the assignment by following these directions: “Write a personal narrative about the whole experience of conducting the interview. Be sure to characterize the interviewee, to describe where and how the interview took place, and to reflect on what you learned about your subject.” Also make sure that you employ plenty of direct quotations throughout this narrative and that you frame each of these direct quotations according to the instructions in Chapter 47 of The Scott Foresman Handbook.

Keep in mind that you are writing a profile of your subject, the kind of essay that would appear as a feature article in a magazine. Use only carefully selected direct quotations from your Q & A interview and remember to quote no more than four lines or forty words at a time and to frame each direct quotation. I will be awarding some points for using all the methods of framing direct quotations that we have discussed in class, including individual words and phrases as well as whole sentences.

This second part of the assignment should be easier for you than the first, especially if you concentrate on giving us background information about your subject rather than merely stringing together a collection of quotations. In addition to the descriptive profile of your interviewee, your essay should contain the narrative of your experience that has a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Your finished essay should run between five and seven typed and double-spaced pages formatted in MLA style.