Journal #4 (Week 5 ): Preparing an Oral History Interview

• What are the components of an effective interview question?
• What are the main skills required during an interview?
• Choose one interviewee from your shortlist in the previous journal entry. What background information do you already know about this potential interviewee? How do you know this?
• Where else might you find background information about your interviewee?
• Prepare a list of ten questions you might ask them.
• Create at least two questions for tutorial discussion, based on the readings.

Following the week 3 class, edit your list of ten questions. What changes did you make in response to the discussion in class? In other words, what did you learn in class that might contribute to more effective interview questions? Include both your original list and your edited/reordered list.