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Organizing Interview Notes Effectively

After conducting an interview, decide which notes to use for your purpose. Organize with outlines, summarizing, and selecting relevant points. Choose the best organizational design for your notes for a coherent essay or report.

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Organizing Interview Notes Effectively

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  1. Let’s assume you’ve finished your interview and now you have a lot of notes: both answers to your questions and your observations

  2. What do you do next? • Suggestions?

  3. Must you use all of your notes? • Answers: No • So how do you pick and choose what to use? • Answers: you might choose the answers that are most relevant to your purpose for interviewing • Answers: Use most interesting answers; use answers that helped tell a story

  4. Now that you have narrowed your scope…what next? • You’ve decided to use one question/answer for the entire plot of your essay (just an example of what 1 student might decide) • A Day in the Life of a Nurse (for example) • A Typical Day in a Japanese Internment Camp • The person’s memories of younger days

  5. What are the ways you’ve been taught to organize written material? • Outline • Combine similar answers • Get rid of irrelevant notes • Chronological order • Micro to Macro Perspective (broad to narrow) • Visits and Revisits

  6. What will be the best organizational design for your notes? • Phrase/Sentence outline • Venn diagram • List of most important points • Chronological order of events (when I got there, what we talked about, what I saw, how the interview ended) • Bottom line: organized succession of ideas

  7. In-class writing assignment: • Design an outline that works with the information/interview notes you have • OR • Design an outline that works with the questions you’ve designed

  8. Due next class: • Typed outline • Typed rough draft • Neither will be accepted for credit unless typed • New policy: no homework will be accepted unless typed (Observation Form HW was a farce; will no longer count for credit; assignment has been thrown out; new policy has been added to syllabus)

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