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Interviews
I wonder if anyone knows what an ethnographer is? It is basically a person (usually an antrhropologist) who studies specific cultures. Well a huge part of this person's work is to observe and interview. Back in the days, when I was in 8th grade a Stanford grad student came to my middle school, among others, to recruit a small group of assistant ethnographers. For some reason i thought it would be cool and I joined the group. My job was to watch student interactions and take notes. Also i was to setup interviews with students and some teachers. This was my first experience in interviewing, and i was even given a little tape recorder to record the process. This was 8 years ago, and for some reason I forgot about the whole experience until about a year ago when i was bored, i decided to check my name out on the web to see what would come up. My name was credited to the report that was done by the Stanford grad students. To check out the report click here.
Interviewing can be fun and if you ask the right questions you will be able to get a lot of information out of the subject. My advice to anyone who is conducting an interview is:
- be prepared
- take note of the answers to your questions
- lastly be interested and lively, if you are dull and unattached the interviewee may fell uncomfortable and you wont be able to get the maximum amount of information you want.
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That is a pretty cool experience to have had during eighth grade. Do you remember if you found the experience to be boring or fun? Did you learn anything interesting from it? I haven’t had a lot of interviewing experience, except for my last two years of high school when I was in yearbook. I surprisingly didn’t have to do a lot of interviewing because the first year I worked in partners and fortunately for me they did most of the interviewing and I put together the captions and layouts for out pages. The second year of yearbook I was the editor-in-chief, so I didn’t have very many pages to write. I did more managerial work like assigning the staff different pages, editing, communicating with the publishing company, and creating the templates. I thought your advice was really great and definitely true.
Wow that's pretty cool that you got to do that when you were so young. My first interviewing experience was during my senior year in high school. Interviewing is nerve racking but it can also be fun. I totally agree that you have to ask the right questions in order for your interview to go smoothly. Also, I agree that in order to get the best results you have to be upbeat and lively because otherwise the person you are interviewing will think you uninterested and may not answer all your questions. Congrats on being a member of that club with the Stanford grad students!
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