Before the Interview
The information in these sources can help you come up with good interview questions. For example:
Informed questions can show your interviewee that you are interested and can lead to a more in-depth conversation.
After the Interview
The information in these sources can help fill in information if your interviewee talked about something you want to learn more about, or if your interviewee didn't talk very much. For example:
News Articles |
Books | Websites | |
Current (or older) reporting on specific events and issues |
Comprehensive background information, history |
Enormous range of information, includes news and overviews |
Brief overviews, definitions |
Sources of information can range from being not scholarly, to very scholarly, to somewhere in the middle. Each source will go somewhere on this scale:
0 |------------------------------------------------5-----------------------------------------------| 10
Least Scholarly Mid-level Most Scholarly
Ex.: entertainment Ex.: magazine & newspaper articles Ex.: academic journal articles
For your research for this assignment, your sources will likely be mainly Mid-level -- credible, but not necessarily the most scholarly.
Click on the links below for more information on identifying how scholarly a source is, and for information on source credibility, fake news (and how to identify it), and media bias. All sources, whether articles, books, or websites, should be examined and reviewed for credibility and bias.