Saturday, February 14, 2009

4.3 Videos

When watching the videos I found that the part of conducting research was helpful to me and I will use it when researching for my speechs.  It reminds you to use multiple sources, for example, dont just go online to search, go to the library. Search journals, books, government publications, esspecially in our library, we are bound to find something helpful for our speeches.  Also mentioned was when searching online use multiple databases, even blogs. 

4.2 Interesting Chapter

The part of chapter 6 that I found interesting was ways to develop interview questions.  I didnt realize how many different types of questions could be asked.  This was very helpful to me, since developing the questions are challenging for me.  Esspecially the part about how to get an extended answer from the interviewee.  

Thursday, February 12, 2009

4.1 Conductiing Interviews

I have had a few experiences with conducting research interviews.  Last semester I had to interview someone for a paper on their diet and exercising. It was easy though because I chose my grandfather.  I also had to interview someone when I had an internship at Kaiser. I had to interview and Doctor, and I was pretty nervous, I felt as though he had bigger and better things to do with his time, which made me even more nervous. I found that coming up with the good enough questions was the difficult part. The easy part for me was doing the actual interview.