Interviewing an individual and including quotes and paraphrases in a paper often makes an essay more interesting. An interview is referred to as a primary source since you are obtaining the interview firsthand. Later in the course, you will use secondary sources in which you quote or paraphrase from articles. For this assignment, do the following:
Directions: You will interview an individual from the ISU community, so that you may use that individual’s insights as part of a narrative essay you develop about that individual. This assignment will require you to complete a series of interrelated tasks: email a potential interviewee to arrange a meeting time and explain the circumstances of the interview, prepare and revise a series of open-ended interview questions, produce an interview transcript, and compose a narrative essay about the interviewee.
As a follow-up to the interview unit, students viewed the documentary film Postville (often shown twice by the instructors). The instructors used various approaches in teaching the film (choosing one or more of the following):