If you have more energy for research after diligently completing your annotations of the five sources required for the Annotated Bibliography, then do another five more answering your same five questions. They can be either reliable popular or scholarly (primary or secondary); it’s your choice based on what’s most useful for your project. (See the Annotated Bibliography Instructions for full details.)
Deadline: These five extra Annotated Bibliography sources will have the same due date and grace period as your Annotated Bibliography, so plan ahead if you choose this enrichment option.
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Summation: Based on a central disciplinary focus for your research, briefly interview a professor, instructor, graduate educator, librarian or other field specific expert pertinent to your research regarding your chosen discipline’s best practices for research, and record their answers to at least five pertinent questions to identify best practices for your research and/or record insider insights.
Core Requirements: Record the name and contact information of your interviewee, briefly explain their pertinence to your project, disclose their department affiliation or other institution/company information, as well as the date and mode (in-person or email) of this interview and include this information at the top of your Canvas submission.
Record your interviewee’s responses to your five chosen questions as direct quotes (via quotation marks) in full sentences. Then, organize them as a numbered list and submit them via Canvas. This expert interview is worth 3 labor units only if relevant responses and fruitful answers are recorded.
Sample questions for an interviewee with academic research expertise:
1) Share your current search terms with your interviewee and ask if they can offer any additional search suggestions based on their knowledge of field-specific terminology.
2) Tell your interviewee about the six main source types that you are learning to identify and include in your research this term (scholarly, popular, primary, secondary, peer-reviewed journals and monographs). Then, ask your interviewee which have particular importance to their field of study, and your topic within it, and why.
Sample questions for an expert linked to your chosen topic of study:
1) Describe your topic of study and the central debate you are exploring to your interviewee, especially the kinds of arguments you have encountered in your research so far. Then, ask how your interviewee feels about this debate and/or how it impacts their work.
2) Describe the general perceptions about the controversy represented in the popular and/or scholarly sources you have gathered so far. Then, ask what unique insider insights they can offer to add to or challenge these perceptions and/or if there is anything that they wish more people understood about their work.
Tips: Design thoughtful questions to offer pertinent ideas and suggestions for your research. You will get more useful information and ideas if you follow this pattern of helping your interviewee by prompting them with ideas from your current research to spark their responses. Be sure to have more than five questions available during the interview in case the interviewee feels unable to answer a few of them. Offer open ended questions with follow-up prompts if need be to provoke more than just yes or no answers.
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