Monday, May 19, 2008

Step V: The Interview

Find an expert in a field related to your paper, and contact this person to arrange an interview. Try to obtain a face to face interview if possible. Otherwise, you may hold a telephone, IM, or Email interview. Once you have a candidate in mind, develop 10 interview questions. Please post your interview questions by Wednesday.

Interview should be completed by Tuesday, May 27th

Typed Transcript of Interview due Wednesday, May 28th

10 comments:

  1. 1 How did you find out which publisher to go too?
    2 How did you choose whither or not to get an agent and why?
    3 What are some of the benefits of having an agent?
    4 How successful was what you published?
    5 Why did you decide to publish the way you did?
    6 How successful was your publication.
    7 How did you choose the type of book that you wanted to write/publish?
    8 How long did it take to get your book published?
    9 What type of company did you publish with? Small medium or large?
    10 What advice would you give someone trying to publish?
    Jim 3

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  2. 1. In your honest opinion, do you think there will ever be a nuclear war?

    2. In a moderate to severe nuclear conflict, what do you think the chances of human survival are?

    3. I have been told that most developed countries have halted theer nuclear weapon production. Do you think these claims are valids?

    4.What complications will occur as the arms rac spreads to undeveloped countries tring to seize nuclear power?

    5. How expensive are the various processes involved in making a nuclear weapon?

    6. Do you believe that countries who develope nuclear weapons do so to feed their power status, or do so to defend their country.

    7. In you opinion, ould a nuclear disarmnent of all countries in the world be possible? Be realistic.

    8. What do you think of the future of nuclear power (like the electricity kind)?

    9. Do you believe that countries could be trusted in having nuclear power plants, but no weapons?

    10. A recent Harvard study stated that the chances of the U.S. being involved in a nuclear war in the next decade is 50%. What do you think of this conclusion?

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  3. M.S.
    1. Will you keep taking medicine your whole life?

    2. How did you emotionally handle finding out that you have M.S.?

    3. What types of medicine did you take to treat M.S.? Were there any side effects?

    4. Do you find it hard to live with this disease knowing that it could affect many aspects of your life?

    5. What made you think that you had M.S.? (signs, symptoms)

    6. How have you felt throughout the process of treating M.S.?

    7. Did you ever think that you would be diagnosed with M.S.?

    8. If one of your relatives or close friends was diagnised with M.S. what advice would you give them? and why?

    9. What types of symptoms did you have before to make you think that you had M.S.?

    10. Did you ever think that you were not going to make it through the process of M.S. and the medicines?

    Edison Per.5

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  5. M.S

    1. When did you first suspect you had M.S? What were your symptoms?

    2. How did you handle it emotionally after found out you had M.S? How did your family react?

    3. Is it scary going through everyday life knowing that the next day you could wake up and be paralyzed?

    4. What medicine do you take for M.S? Do you have any symptoms from it? How often do you take it?

    5. What advice would you give a person going through the process of being diagnosed with M.S? What helped you get through it?

    6. Describe how your body feels with M.S. Does anything ever get numb or sore? If so, what does the doctor do?

    7. What do you have to do when you go to the doctor for M.S?

    8. How long have you had M.S? How does it feel to know that the disease is unpredictable and progress very fast or very slow?

    9. How do you cope with the hardships?

    10. How does your family help you deal with M.S?

    Emily, Period 8

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  6. Dr. Lima Interview Questions:
    1. What advice do you generally give your patients about cord blood banking?
    2. If you don't mind me asking, what would you do when faced with making this decision?
    3. Is there an option for public banking in CT? at Yale?
    4. Do you recommend certain private banks over others?
    5. Have you ever had a patient helped by a family member's cord blood?
    6. Do you recommend CBB for patients that have a strong genetic predisposition to various diseases?
    7. I read that I need to make this decision by 34 weeks. Should I alert the office to my decision?
    8. Have you done this procedure on a patient before? Is it a simple procedure?
    9. What are your thoughts on CT starting its own public bank? Is it in the works?
    10. Can patients donate cord blood to other states that have already started public banks?
    -Mrs. Baker

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  7. 1. What are the harmful effects of steroid use?
    2. What specific risks result from its use?
    3. Can a person die or overdoes from steroid use?
    4. How many different types of steroids exist?
    5. Is steroid use more common for baseball players than other athletes?
    6. Why are steroids so popular among baseball players?
    7. What are the benefits of steroids that make people want to use them?
    8. Can steroids cause long term effects or diseases?
    9. Can people who are caught selling or using steroids face charges?
    joe class 3

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  8. 1. What is your opionion of alternative enegy?
    2. What is your favorite energy source?
    3. What alternative energy sources do you plan on seeing more of in the future?
    4. What does your company speacialize in?
    5. What are you doing to help our growing need for alternative energy?
    6. How successful has your business been in selling the idea of alternative energy?
    7. How expensive is your alternative energy?
    8. In your opnion, do you see many people looking into alternative energy in the near future?
    9. How does alternative energy work?(pick one)
    10. Is your source of energy easy to obtain?

    Riley Period 7

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  9. 10 Interview Questions
    1. Do you believe stem cells are morally right?
    2. Do you believe with more research on stem cells that eventually some of the greatest incurable disease can be cured?
    3. What type of stem cell has been proven to work the most efficiently?
    4. Which type of stem cell do you believe works the best?
    5. Which procedure do you believe is the easiest to retrieve Stem Cells?
    6. What causes stem cells to maintain themselves in an undifferentiated state?
    7. What cues do cells use to tell them when to start or stop dividing?
    8. What genetic and environmental signals affect differentiation?
    9. What are the current diseases that can be cured by the use of stem cells?
    10. What is the greatest expectation of stem cells to you?
    Taylor, Period 1

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  10. Questions

    1.Is Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis the only type of Arthritis that children get or are there other types?

    2.Is Arthritis hereditary?

    3.What are some common symptoms that children have when they get Arthritis?

    4.Are these symptoms the same as ones that older people have when getting Arthritis?

    5.What is the most common treatment that kids would get if they have Arthritis or most successful treatment? What do you personally recommend?

    6.How much do these treatments usually cost?

    7.Do children with Arthritis have the same treatments as older people with Arthritis?

    8.Do you know how close scientists are to finding a cure or what they have tried?

    9.Has the number of children with Arthritis always been the same or has it just become a problem?

    10.What do you do for your job? Do you research Arthritis or teach it?

    Bridget per. 5

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