Palo Alto College
San Antonio, Texas
STEP-BY-STEP INTERVIEWING INSTRUCTIONS
- You will need a CD/RW. Be sure your name is on it!
- Select an Individual over the age of fifty to interview. The person must agree to be
recorded (audiotaped &/or videotaped).
- Discuss and decide with your perspective interviewee what will be the focus of the interview.
- Set a time and place for your interview
- Submit a page biographical paper on your interviewee including information his/her full name
(maiden
surname for women too), date of birth, names of parents, number of siblings, where born and raised,
places lived, educational level achieved, occupations performed, if married- full name of spouse,
when and where married, number of children, and other items of interest regarding religious and
political affiliation, socio-economic status, military status, hobbies, and the interviewee's connection
to the topic and to YOU (e.g. relative, friend, neighbor, colleague...).
- Research the topic of the interview
- Submit an annotated bibliography with a minimum of five sources
- Collect photographs and/or documents from the person
- Create a minimum of twenty questions relevant to the interview topic. (One of your last questions must be- Is there anything else you would like to add?)
- Interview the person
- Have the person sign the
Interview Agreement Release Form
- Transcribe the interview.
- Make a mimimum of FIVE links to your interview on the thumb drive.
- Submit an analysis of the interview. Answer these questions:
-What did you learn from doing this interview?
-What were the most important points made in this interview?
-What did you learn about your interviewee that you did not know before?
-How did the interviewee express her/his feelings- not only in what was said, but how it was said?
-What did these stories teach me about the topic?
-How did you attempt to verify the stories told to you?
-How did the interview help you connect the history of your town to course themes?
- Submit the transcribed interview and any scanned documents on your cd to the instructor
- Submit the floppy disk, and the Interview Agreement Release
Form to the instructor.