Interview Reflection

Shahadat Rahman
Professor Matyakubova
English 21003
14 November, 2017
 Research Paper Interview Reflection

This assignment required me to conduct an interview with a professional in the healthcare system. Conducting this interview helped me discover how to find professionals in a certain field and how to contact and interview them. I had to think of what information I wanted to extract from the interviewee ahead of time and simultaneously think of questions that they would be comfortable answering. It would be useless to conduct an interview where the interviewee is only comfortable answering one or two questions. This also helped me consider how I would use this information in my paper and helped me develop my paper further.

Not only that, but the interview helped me become more interested in my research topic. I was initially interested, but the personal interview provided an element of ethos I had not felt in my previous research. The feelings invoked in me during this interview gave me a sense of the feelings I want to invoke in my audience when they read my paper. This helped me realize how and when I should use the interviews and also how my paper should be written in terms of style.