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Interviews

Structure of tne Interview

• Hello, identification, purpose of interview.
  
  
• Ground rules
  -- Tape recording
  -- "On the record"
  -- Review of material.
  
  
• Establish your credentials/knowledge
  
  
• Easy Questions
  
  
• Hard Questions
  
  
• Additional Background
  
  
• "Anything you want to add?"

Your knowledge of a subject determines the quality of the interview.

What do you want to know?

Do Your Homework!
Know the basic facts.
Know the basic vocabulary.

Prepare a list of questions
Follow new leads;
BUT return to your questions.

Bad questions = Bad answers

Some Interviewing Rules

Caution: The following term are generally not understood. Make sure all parties to an interview agree on the rules for the interview!

• Information given to help you understand the issue
• Information is not for publication in any form or used in other interviews
• Source is never to be linked to the information

• Information is not for publication in any form but may be used in other interviews so long as source is not linked to the information

• Information is not for publication in any form, or
• Information may be published without identifying the source, or
• Information may be published without explicitly identifying the source

• Information may be published without identifying the source.

• Specific quotes attributed to the source may not be published.

Tape Recording of Interviews

The E-Mail Interview

• An account name does not guarantee the identify of the author!
• A written response is significantly different from the response in a face-to-face interview.
• E-mail may be very fast, but a message must be sent before the speed of the Internet becomes important.