Reading an interview is like eavesdropping though print, allowing us not only to hear the answers to a series of questions but to get a sense of a person as well. For this reason, interviews are one of the most popular forms of general reading. For writers, they hold yet another appeal: They provide easy access to lots of information.
Interview skills are research skills. In order to prepare for an interview, writers must explore a topic enough to establish their own credibility and identify the information needed. They must then identify useful information and formulate questions that will inspire them to reveal what they know.
Interview skills are formal conversation skills.
For young writers, interviews are opportunities to interact with people whom they might not normally meet and to explore a more formal use of oral language than conversations with peers.
In this part of the executive summary genre study, you will read interviews, look at the structures of questions, use your writing skills to draft a series of questions about your issue, review your note-taking skills, and transcribe the interview so that others learn more about community issues and people.
Some examples of popular culture interviews with:
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