COMS 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Small Talk

• School: Ohio University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 2040
• Professor: Not Listed

Document Summary

Preparing the interview: it consists of determine your goal, researching the topic, and structuring the interview, determine your goal, your purpose, informational goals, relational goals. Study the situation: when and where will the interview take place, will invited or uninvited audiences be present, how much time do you have to prepare, prepare yourself. Structure the interview: jot down areas and subareas while you are researching, 6 key words in a moderately scheduled interview, moderately scheduled interview is useful for long interviews. Selecting interviewees: you purpose and the situation determine the party you have to interview, review what you have already known about them; look into what you don"t know. Directly involved with the information you want: support sources. With important connection to primary sources: expert sources. With superior knowledge or skills relating to the information you need. Do not assume a potential interviewee is unavailable: willingness. Fear of what may be revealed in an interview might make participants reluctant.