Blog 17

Interview Protocol:
Do students attitudes change when they are writing english papers for the teacher and not themselves?


Warm-Up Questions:
When did you start reading?
When did you start writing?
Do you remember who taught you how to write/read?
Do you remember what book you first read? How did you feel?
Can you tell me about your first writing experience?
Were you proud of you work and why?
What was your best experience with writing throughout all your years in school?
What was the worst experience with writing and why?
Did the teacher have an impact on your experience with writing?
Is school important to you and why?
Does your family have the same or different values about school?

General Focus:

How many years have you been in college?

How many classes would you say involved you writing papers?

Were these classes only English classes?
What did you like about your English classes?

Did you find the English classes here at Kean to be useful?
Did you dislike any of your English classes?
Did you find that other students disliked the class for the same reason or different reasons?
Did you have a favorite English class?
Did you have to take English classes for a requirement or major/minor?
Do you like to write outside of the classroom?
Do you remember how you felt after writing your first creative piece of writing?
Which do you think is harder and why? Academic writing or creative writing?
Do you remember an assignment you wrote in school?

In-Depth Questions:
What is your opinion on how English classes are set up?
Do you believe these classes meet the needs of the students?
Do you think these classes allow students to express themselves?
Have you ever felt restrained when writing a paper?
Do you think academic writing is used more frequently then creative writing?
When your creative piece gets graded how do you feel?
Do you think its fair to judge someone's creativity?
Do you think that being able to write well creatively could help academic writing? Or the other way around?
What is the easiest part about academic writing?
What is the easiest part about creative writing?
Do you remember a certain academic paper you wrote? Can you tell me about it?
How did you feel when you were writing this?
How did you get prepared?
How did you feel when it was over?
Will you ever look back at the paper or no?
Does you future have plans to become something associated with English?
Does you job require you to use proper grammar?
Which type of writing will be necessary within your profession? Creative or academic?

Wrap-Up Question:
Is there anything else you would like to add?