Preparation is the key to success!

3). Pick one concept from the reading this week and discuss it in detail.

I wanted to continue on from my other blog post on interviews. As these were the most useful for researching my culture speech topic. I was particularly interested in the preparation, as that seems to be the key to a good interview. First I will go over some of the main points from the book and then I will add some more of the things I encountered when conducting my interviews. 

The process looks like:

-Determine the purpose of the interview

The books says that you should look to see if this is one of the most usefully ways to get your information and how will you use this information in your speech. 

I think it would also be important to consider how your audience will receive these information. It is important to have credibility, so if you are talking about say Fast food restaurants it could be beneficially to have quotes from workers. However, if you are talking about more complex sciences, people will be more receptive to the facts.

- Selecting interviewees

This is about selecting a interviewee based on their credibility and willingness to participate. When I was looking for participants, I found a group that was very obviously part of the gamer culture, however, not all of them were willing to participate or were unwilling to have their full names used. 

-Pre-research and Questions

Having a wide variety of questions is good. They allow for you to easily navigate through an interview and hit on the points that are relevant. Also, if the particular person you are interviewing is uncomfortable with a certain set of questions. Then, it is good to have back-up questions. The other issue is you need to know a bit of the basics for the topic you are interview the person on. If you try to interview a gamer and you don’t know some common terminology or what you should be asking, it will be easy to come up empty handed.