For my culture speech I interview several different gamers from different places. This was one of the first times I really did an interview for anything. I found that it was very helpful and gave me good credible quotes that helped support my topic. I can’t say for certain if an interview would be as beneficial for a scientific report, but on something like culture, where it is more opinion based, it was useful.
I went in with a serious of basic questions and I found that I needed to make up more questions as I got deeper in to the interviews. In the future, it would most likely be better to think broader when making the questions. It is always possible to pair down the questions later, you don’t have to use them all.
Another thing I found interesting about the interview, is that by taking people who were “experts” on the topic, I was able to get more ideas for my speech. Certain areas that were not as substantial content wise or weakly supported I was either able to modify, replace, or fully support. Overall, I had fun conducting the interviews and found that people like to talk about areas they are interested in.
Hi Zii,
ReplyDeleteLet me just start off by saying that I enjoyed your cultural speech the other night on gaming. I used to play video games when I was younger and your speech definitely caught my attention, great job. And just so you know, RPG's were my absolute favorite games, on the PS2 and GBA. So, thanks for making me nostalgic!
I think it's great that you did interviews for the culture speech because you were able to bring in different opinions, ideas and statements and inform the class on the diverse findings. I hope to be able to someday do a research interview. And yes, it's better to have too many questions for an interview than too little; it would be rather embarrassing to inform the interviewee that you have run out of questions, right? Anyway, good post. Keep it up.