Calendar:
Monday, 12 March: at least 10 interview questions due in
class
Friday, 16 March: rough draft in class for peer review
Friday, 23 March: final draft due to Edmodo before midnight
Instructions:
A case study is an intensive research project that involves
describing an individual case or person within a larger context. It is
regularly used in psychology, anthropology and other social sciences. For our
purposes, it is a type of personal interview essay.
For this assignment, you will identify some sort of social
problem or issue occurring here at AIS or in Ho Chi Minh City and interview a
person whose personal experience illustrates the issue in order to gain new
insight. For example, you could write about cyberbullying and interview a
classmate who has suffered from it in the past to get his or her unique
perspective. Because of the potential sensitivity of some of these issues, I
would like you to create a pseudonym or false identity for your source.
Once you’ve interviewed your subject, you will then write an
approximately three-page essay in MLA format describing the social issue you’ve
chosen and your source’s relationship to the topic with at least five direct
quotes from your interview with appropriate MLA citations and a works cited
page.
Format:
·
Introduction: Provide appropriate background information about the topic and end the
paragraph with a thesis statement explaining who you interviewed, when and
where the interview was conducted and what you hoped to discover from the
interview.
·
Body: Group the information you learned in your interview thematically, focus
on three or four big themes or things you learned from the interview and
explain each in its own paragraph using quotes as support.
·
Conclusion: Summarize the overall main theme or what you learned from the
interview and provide some concluding remarks or final thoughts about the
social issue.
Grading:
This assignment is worth 100 pts. You will be evaluated on
conventions, MLA format, organization and relation to the specifics of the
assignment.
Additional
Information:
It’s unnecessary to
list every question and answer from the interview during the essay here. Focus
on important information that provides some interesting insight into the social
issue. Avoid writing “For question #1, I asked…and he answered…” Instead, write
something like “When asked what he thought about…he answered…” For this
assignment, it is OK to use personal pronouns.
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Grade Sheet
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Questions
First Draft
Peer Review (by Mia Duong)
Final Draft
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