3 types of Interviews:
Semi-structured interview-purpose: gaining insight into writer's motivations, values, background, approach to the writing process. (What do you do when you don't understand the instructions of an assignment)
Stimulated elicitation- Purpose of both: gaining insight on writer's thinking, problem solving strategies, learning about writer's decision making.
Discourse Based Interview
*Keep emphasis on the positive
*Interview is gathering data. Analysis is afterwords.
Freewrite:
For my project, I am trying to focus on professional writing in a hospital or medical setting. Medical writing interests me very much. I was trying to do my project on one of the doctors, but I was routed to someone who works more in the educational and management part of the hospital. But, I believe this person can actually help me more than studying a doctor.
I mainly want to focus some of my questions on how does working in a professional setting vs working at home help or hinder the writing that is done. When writing for medical educational purposes, what is important to include or explain, especially to those who aren't that familiar with medical language? Hopefully my project will help me understand more about medical writing, but also what it is like to write professionally in a business orientated field that concerns itself with so many people with different backgrounds and cultures.
My contact hasn't yet discussed with me what writing she'll be sharing with me. Hopefully she will be getting back to me soon about it. As for visiting and observing her, while I may only get to observe her in one office, more than likely her home. I'm hoping to go visit her office at work as well. I want to be familiar with each place, even if I can't see her in both settings. But, visiting her office at the hospital might give me a clearer idea of what she sees and hears everyday while she is working. It should give me a view of her associates as well, and perhaps some of the interactions that go on around her.
As I mentioned before, after this project is complete I will hopefully have a better view on medical and business writing and maybe even editing as well. I'll be able to understand the pros and cons of working in a business setting vs working from home to complete projects on time. Depending on what I learn, this may influence my career path after I complete school.
As for larger implications, this project may give whomever reads it a little insight into how a person working in the medical field educates and informs those around the hospital and those who visit it.
FINAL Creative Gallery
14 years ago
1 comment:
Nice work here. I encourage you to focus your project (and project proposal) on the second of the two possible topics your describe (that is, "how do medical writers produce texts for lay audiences?" over "how does home vs. work space affect the writing?"). With that focus, you could elaborate your discussion of the problem you want to explore (in the first few paragraphs of the abstract, explain why this topic is an important one for you and others to consider); describe in more detail the specific findings you hope to make (for example, you might say that you hope to learn how a professional writer's consideration of audience influences each and every aspects of the planning, writing, and revising process); and propose some larger implications for your work (for example, how might your research help professional writing and editing students? how might your research help professional writing and editing teaches? How might it shed light on the problem you describe in the beginning of the abstract?).
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