For today’s beginning of class writing assignment, create a memo addressed to Prof. Ellis with the subject, “In-Class Interview of a Peer.”
You will serve as interviewer, and one of your classmates will be your interviewee. The memo’s purpose is to briefly interview a classmate about the article that they read for today’s class, cite the interview, and cite their magazine article.
Your memo will look like this:
TO: Professor Ellis
FROM: Your Name
DATE: March 27, 2019
SUBJECT: In-Class Interview of a Peer
As requested, I am interviewing First Last Name about the article that they read for today’s class.
According to First Name, “<quote a sentence summarizing what your interviewee says the article is about>” (FirstInitial. Last Name, personal communication, March 27, 2019).
The article’s bibliographic reference is below.
Henry, W. A., III. (1990, April 9). Making the grade in today’s schools. Time, 135, 28-31.
Copy and paste your short memo into a comment made to this blog post.
TO: Professor Ellis
FROM: Eugenia Pierre
DATE: March 27, 2019
SUBJECT: In-Class Interview of a Peer
As requested, I am interviewing Kyrah Mcfarlane about the article that they read for today’s class.
According to Kyrah, “The article is about both young and adult women labor in Nigeria. Often time during childbirth, the babies are born still due to lack of health care, and hospitals being too far away from them. Also 4500 women die yearly because of causes related to childbirth”. (K. Mcfarlane, personal communication, March 27, 2019).
The article’s bibliographic reference is below.
A, Baker. (2019, february18-25). In the world’s worst country to give birth the flying midwives are saving the lives of mom and babies. Time, 56-59.
TO: Professor Ellis
FROM: Kyrah McFarlane
DATE: March 27th, 2019
SUBJECT: In-Class Interview of a Peer
As requested, I am interviewing Eugenia Pierre about the article that they read for today’s class.
According to Eugenia Pierre, “the article is about changing some bad habits for the growth of your company. John is a consultant for small businesses and he goes to small businesses and tries to find solutions for their problems. He had a one on one meeting with a business owner and realized they did everything through email and never had company meetings. They started having daily meetings about the company and five months later there was a huge difference in the company.”
The articles bibliographic reference is below.
J, Marshall. (2018, October) What habits are limiting your growth?. Journal of dental technology, pg. 34.
TO: Professor Ellis
FROM: Savan De Jesus
DATE: May 22, 2019
SUBJECT: In-Class Interview of a Peer
As requested, I am interviewing Jamie Lynn Torre about the article that they read for today’s class.
According to Jamie, “The ins and outs of writing competitions and the systems put in place for judging writing contests” (J. Torre, personal communication, May 22, 2019).
The article’s bibliographic reference is below.
Franklin J. (2019, May/June). Shadow Narrative. Poets & Writers, 47(3), 52 – 56.