Interview

  For this assignment you need to interview a person of your choosing. They can be whoever you want, as long as they can provide with enough information to write the story. 
This is exactly like the other interview based stories you've already written so don't panic.

In this story you need to tell us an interesting story about the person you interview. Don't try to tell their whole story rather focus on an interesting event that they are willing to share with you.

  Here are a few steps you need to follow to be able to do the assignment well.

First pick a person to interview and make sure their willing to be interviewed. 

Second develop your open ended interview questions.

Third interview the person. You may want to interview them more than once. You may need them to clarify an answer for you. You may also want to schedule a follow up interview over the phone or email. so make sure you give yourself enough time. 

Fourth look over the answers to your questions. Use their answers to write your story about them.

The story you write needs to follow the basic guidelines we've covered in class. You need to have the five ws and the h. The story needs to be written in the inverted pyramid and you need to have a catchy lede.

The finished story needs to be between 2 and three pages in length. (500-900 words)

You need to have a rough draft posted to your Blog by the Monday we return from spring-break.(100 points) We will workshop them in class. Final copies will be posted to your Blogs Thursday, March 19. (300 points)

 
The grades for the interview will be the first grades of the new quarter rather than the last grades for this quarter. So make sure you have everything in on time so you can start off on a good foot.