Intensive InterviewPaper details:Instructions:In this assignment, you will interview an older relative or friend, using the techniques learned inclass. Yourwritten report will show both what you learned duringthe interview and your masteryof the interviewtechniques.?WHAT TO DOIdentify a family member or friend who is willing to participate in this project. The person shouldbesignificantly olderthan you, and preferably of a different generation.Choose oneof the followingtopics to talkabout with your informant:1.Food traditions and experiences: e.g., the foods, meals, and treats your informant ate asa child; howtheir family used special foods for celebrations and holidays; who was andwasn’t involved withpreparing the food.2.Military experiences: e.g., how your informant or their family members came to join the military;experiences they had; superiors and colleagues; effects on their thinking and lives.3.Law enforcement / corrections experiences: e.g., how your informant or their family members came to ajob or career in law enforcement or corrections; experiences they had; colleagues and superiors;effects on their thinking and lives.4.Childhood play and toys: e.g., how your informant played as a child; favorite kinds oftoys andplaces toplay; contrasts and/or similarities to modern toys and play.5.Community/social services experience: e.g., how your informant was an administrator and/or recipientof community services or social services; specific experiences and memories; how the experiencesaffected their thinking and lives.6.Education: e.g., what it was like for your informant in school; favorite and least favorite teachers andsubjects; friends and enemies.Set up one or more mutually agreeable times to talk together. Your interview must be conducted in voice–to–voice communication. Therefore, meeting in person, talking by phone, or Skype are all acceptable, but e–mail,texting, and instant messaging are not. Give your informant a general idea of the topics you’ll be asking about,but do not provide a specific list of questions in advance.Your interview should be at least30 minutes and ideally an hour, and you may conduct multiple interviews ifyou want (with the same person).While doing this project, you must applyat leastfiveinterviewing/oral history techniques that we learned inclass. Look over your notes and decide which techniques you will make a conscious effort to use.Prepare foryour interview by developing a short Interview Guide of topics and questions, as describedin class.Assumethat you will not need to ask all of the questions; better to be prepared with too many options than too few. Asyou conduct the interview, create follow–up questions based on what your informant tells you, as demonstratedin class, rather than sticking rigidly to your prepared list.During the interview, you must take notes in some way. If you have the capability, you mayrecord yourconversation (with your informant’s permission) and later make notes from it.However, these notes arenotyour written report.They are the rough data from which you will develop your paper, but they are nota paperby themselves (i.e., do not simply hand in a transcript of your interview). Your job is to analyze anddraw selectively from the data you collect, to create a readable report that addresses what’s most importantand interesting from your interview. Direct quotes are acceptable, but your report must be more than a seriesof quotes.When you review your notes, think about you can organize what you’ve learned in a meaningful way. Forexample, in an interview about educational experiences, you might notice your informant focused on fourthemes (e.g., their early years in school, their high school years, their teachers, and their friends). You couldthen discuss these four themes one–by–one in your report, rather than simply describing a hodgepodge ofeverything your informant said. In other words,your report needs to be internally organized around specificthemes, even if your interview itself wandered from topic to topic.?WHAT TO WRITEWrite a paper of three to five pagesthat includes the components below. Your papershould use APA format,including a cover sheet, page numbers, double–spaced, and free of spelling and grammar errors. Do notwritean abstract. Save your paper repeatedly as you write it, in.doc or .docx format.Please read over your paperand correct errors before handing it in.a.Begin with a cover pagein APA format.b.In the first paragraph, introduce your informantand the topic of your interview. Describe who yourinformantis, what relationship you have with them, and a brief summary of what’s important to knowabout them.Assume your reader has no idea who your informant is, and consider yourself to bewritingfor a formal audience.For example, starting with “I interviewed Grampa who I love” is inappropriate, but “My informant was mygrandfather, Ronaldo Gomez, age 76, who served in the US Army for 28 years in Kansas, Korea, andCalifornia” is fine.c.In the second paragraph, describe the circumstances of your interview(s). Mention the setting, mode ofcommunication (phone, face to face, etc.), date, time, approximate duration of interview, how and whenyou took notes, and anything else you think is relevant.d.For the next several pages, describe what you learned. As explained above, this body of your papermust be organized in a meaningful way, not simply a recapitulationof the interview.Do not list theexact questions you asked your informant; instead, incorporate your informant’s responses into yourpaper.That’s because you’re writing a paper, not just an interview transcript. Here are two illustrativeexamples:•Poorly written:“I asked him what kinds of toys he played with when he was a kid. He responded bysaying that he mostly played outside with balls and bikes, but sometimes played with his five sistersand their dolls.”•Strongly written:“When Steve was a child, he mostly played outside with traditional masculine toyslike balls and bats. But he also played sometimes with his five sisters and their dolls.”e.In thenext–to–last paragraph, name thefive(or more) techniques for oral history interviewing youapplied during this project, and explain how you applied each one.f.In the last paragraph, describe how your interview felt different (or didn’t feel different) from a normalconversation.Finally, discuss what, if anything, you would do differently if you were starting thisproject from the beginning.?HOW YOU’LL BE GRADEDYour score will be determined by the criteria on the Project Five Assessment Rubric,found under “CourseInformation”