JOURNALISM: Text type - Interview

Journalism

Text type - Interview

TEAM 1

2096686 BERNAL GARCIA DAPHNE GABRIELA 2096294 CAVAZOS HERNANDEZ JOSE RICARDO 2096606 CEDILLO VEGA MIRANDA

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What is an interview?

• Is a technique that allows you to write a person-to-person discussion
• Can give increased insight into a person's thoughts, feelings and behavior
• Permits to encourage an interviewee to talk at length about the topic of interest
• The interview with an individual could appear in a magazine or could be embeded in an article

Structure

The interview is directed at understanding the issues you want the interviewee to talk about. To do this, you could use either a thesis-driven or a problem-driven structure. In the case of the former, you start with an idea and structure the questions to prove your point. Therefore, before the interview, decide which topics you would like the interviewee to talk about.

Introduction

In your introduction, you need to establish rapport with the interviewee, for example, Thanks for coming in today to talk to XXXX magazine, Introduce the interviewee and, in the case of a problem-driven text, pose the question to be solved. "Wycliffe Mangala, you are known as the pioneer of the village mobile phone in Kenya. Where did the idea come from?"

The main body

If you want your interview to cover personal issues, you should ask about less sensitive issues first, and then move to specifics, for example:

• Ask about some facts
• Move on to questions about the present
• Ask questions about matters such as feelings, perceptions and conclusions

Conclusion - 'wrap-up´

Your last question could allow the respondent to provide information about future plans: 'So what do you see as the next stage? The interview could be concluded by you thanking the respondent.

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Tone and style

In real life, we do not speak the way we write. However, if you are presenting the interview as a written text it is best to write your interviewee's responses in complete, grammatically correct sentences.

Task 19.

Analysis

Essential questions

Answers

Is the text a problem-driven text? Prove it.

I think is based on narrative

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How was the interview explained the background and the reason for the interview.

The text does not mention the reason for the interview.

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How was the interviewer organized the questions to lead the reader into an understanding of the subject or the personality of the interviewee?

in an ascending way since it puts the question from least to most important

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How does the interviewer wrap up the interview?

end the interview with gratitude

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comment on the language used by the interviewee: how, do you think, has the text been changed from actual speech?

I think that the language wed in the interview was more formal than the habitual

Thanks!