Today (11/18) we will be working on the “Scripted Interview,” one of the 8 assignments the English department requires from all 101 students. If you are unable to finish this during class, please complete it for homework (Due Monday 11/25 by 8:00am).
Instructions
- Review the sources in your annotated bibliography (by re-reading your annotations and reminding yourself of what each one says!)
- Choose two or three sources to work with for this activity
- Write an imaginary conversation where you interview the authors of your sources about the topic of your final project.
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- You should ask at least three open-ended questions that allow the authors to give complex, interesting answers (3 points)
- Each of the authors should respond to each of your questions, giving a complex, interesting answer (6 points)
- One of the authors should respond directly to the other author’s comment at least once (1 point)
- The assignment should be turned in on time (2 points)
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Total: 12 points
For people who conducted their own interviews: Don’t rewrite your actual interviews with the people, but ask new questions in this assignment and imagine what your interviewee might have said based on their responses to your real questions.
To complete this assignment, you must think seriously and carefully about each author’s point of view (based on what they wrote/said in your source) in order to imagine (as accurately as possible) what they would think/say about your questions.
It also might help to consider, if you were actually interviewing those two people, what would be interesting to hear both of them talk about?
Format the interview like a script. For example:
Scripted Interview Formatting Example
Olivia: What is the most important thing you have learned in college so far, and why?
Student 1: I learned that I have to be really careful about planning my time, because it’s easy to get behind, and if you’re behind, you don’t have time to do a very good job on your assignments or think about them a lot. So you learn less, even if the material is easy.
Olivia: I agree, that’s super important!
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