Yesterday in class, for the interview and bibliography exercise, you selected a phrase or sentence from your interview and introduced it with a signal phrase or clause. You also drafted a bibliographic entry, including a three-paragraph annotation (with a paragraph of summary, a second of commentary, and a third that identified your subject as a freshman at High Point University, majoring in . . . ).
Although you are not required to type your complete interview, I encourage you to do so. If you decide to include in your annotated bibliography or your final essay a phrase or sentence other than the one you included on your worksheet, having a document file of your complete interview will enable you to easily copy and paste.
Transcripts of my own interviews with students are included below as models for your own.
Interview with Jesse Brewer
Jane Lucas: Jesse, what experience did you have with playing Scrabble before you encountered the game in English 1103?
Jesse Brewer: So, whenever I would go up to my grandmother and grandfather’s house in Pennsylvania, we would play Scrabble pretty consistently there. We had a lot of fun playing Scrabble at my grandmother’s house whenever I was a young child.
Lucas: Has Scrabble changed your perspective on reading and/or writing? If so, how?
Brewer: While I wouldn’t necessarily say it has changed my perspective on reading or writing, it has most certainly introduced me to new words which allows me to read or write more capably in everyday situations.
Lucas: Will you continue to play Scrabble after the conclusion of the semester?
Brewer: Yes, my grandmother is still going to want to play it every summer.
Interview with Ava Salvant
Jane Lucas: Ava, what experience did you have with playing Scrabble before you played it in English 1103?
Ava Salvant: I didn’t have any experience with Scrabble beforehand. I didn’t know how to play it at all.
Lucas: Has Scrabble changed your perspective on reading and/or writing? If so, how?
Salvant: Probably it has influenced my ability to write. Not always when you sit down to write do you know the exact words you want to say. You kind of have to go with the flow. You have to put as many words as you can down on the board in Scrabble or on the paper when writing.
Lucas: Will you continue to play Scrabble after the end of the semester?
Salvant: I might come back to it a few times to refresh or just use as a pastime.
Note that no quotations appear in the transcripts of the interviews because I am not quoting the interviews; I am presenting the interviews themselves, which is why there are no works cited entries either.
Bonus Assignment
As practice in creating a file of an interview transcript, type the interview that you conducted with your classmate yesterday.
Directions
- Review my interview with student Ava Salvant posted in the sample papers folder on Blackboard.
- Using that file as a model, type your interview and save it as a Microsoft Word file or PDF.
- Print a copy of your interview, and submit it at the beginning of class on Friday, November 7. You are not required to post a copy online; you will turn in only a paper copy.
Next Up
Wordplay Dordplay Day! To prepare for class, revisit the Dictionary and World Builder pages on the Scrabble website, the Merriam-Webster Scrabble Word Finder page, and review the blog posts devoted to Scrabble tips.
Jane Lucas 