Assignment 3: Interviewing For this assignment you will interview and be interviewed by someone in this class. If you are doing interviews as part of your project, if possible interview your partner on a topic related to the project, so that this is a dry run for those interviews. If that's not feasible, pick a topic (or two) of mutual interest about which you can ask a number of questions. Aim for interviews of about 45 minutes to one hour in length. RECORD YOUR INTERVIEWS. Many people use their own computers or recorders. The computer lab has digital recorders for you to use. In the past, they have been returned without their memory sticks (!!). The lab has replaced all the memory sticks, but it would be great if this year the memory sticks did not have to be replaced again. Unfortunately, the recorders use a prioprietary format, not MP3, so the files have to be converted using a mp3 to oma converter. You may need to poke around on Google for one that suits your PC/Mac/Linux configuration. So you're better off all around using your own equipment. If you already have your own equipment, great. If you don't, you may want to try recording to iPod or to your computer. Audacity is a free audio recording/editing software that works on Windows/Mac/Linux. In any case, an external mic may be useful. Nancy has one you can borrow. Email her for more details. Before the interview, develop a set of questions in the order in which you plan to ask them. During the interview, you may need to re-order. Transcribe at least part of an interview -- either this interview, or one you are doing for your project. The rule of thumb is that it takes (for a good typist!) three times as long to transcribe as the interview itself, so you don't have to transcribe the whole thing, but you should spend at least an hour transcribing. In sum, you will do the following: -Interview someone else in the class -Be interviewed by someone else in the class -Do an hour of transcribing of either one of these interviews OR another interview for your project. Each pair of you, please turn in your papers together so that I have both the interviewer's and interviewee's reports. EACH of you should turn in: A short statement of the goals of your interview. The list of questions you planned to use in your interview. If applicable, a revised set of questions: how you would do it differently were you to do it again. Your transcription. A short report on the interview for which you were the interviewer. Not the transcription, but a summary of key findings. About 2 pages. Two reflections: one on being the interviewee, one as the interviewer, about one page each. As interviewee, a page or so of feedback to the interviewer: what advice would you give him/her on questions, but especially on behavior, attitude, and the like during the interview? (Give them a copy of this, as well as one for me.) Due Oct 9. Please be concise while thorough; no part of this needs to be very long. Note: if you're looking for audio recording software to put on your Mac or PC