CHAPTER 22 – INTERVIEW REPORT

The goal of this chapter is to gain insights by interviewing someone and then sharing those revelations with readers. Aim to ask the right questions, record answers accurately, and report results clearly. An interview report is a report which gives you an idea of what a person is like, and what kind of opinions that person holds to a particular topic or group of topics. When writing an interview report you have a chance to share someone's views with the world. The interview report can generally be written in a conversational style, as the interview itself. For much of an interview report will be writing using the interviewee's own words, so one of the most important parts of the interview report is the preparatory phase where we decide what the general aims of the interview will be and determine a list of possible questions, along with an outline on the topics that we want to hit as we move through the interview process. The interview report should start with a basic introduction of the person being interviewed. Once we have introduced the interviewee, we should move on to the questions. The questions should try to relate whatever topics the interview is about to the interviewee's own experience. Also we should be sure that we have a reliable method of recording the interview. In the interview report we shouldn’t use the quotes were not specifically stated by the interviewees. If all we have is a vague sense of the interviewee's opinion, then we should make it clear that we are paraphrasing. When we follow these tips then our interview report will give people an accurate impression of the person.