The Listening Paper will ask you to reflect on both the oral history that you collected and the process of listening that you engaged in to collect the oral history.
In the first section of the paper, you should analyze the oral history to identify some key themes or ideas that emerged. You should then make connections between those ideas and the research that you did beforehand. You may want to connect this part of your paper with the second part of your paper.
In the second part of your paper, you should talk about what you learned about the listening process, yourself and your own listening skills. In order to write this paper, you should first re-read your notes from our class lecture on empathic listening and then you should re-read the course textbook on listening and interviewing.
NEXT, you should listen to the entire oral history again, and take note of the way that you asked questions:
Please identify patterns of your listening and question asking that define your STRENGTHS as a listener (and interviewer) and your AREAS FOR GROWTH. Give concrete specific details from this interview (including the timecode from the interview) and set some goals for your listening and interviewing skills in the future.
I will expect you to use vocabulary from course lecture and from the textbook as you analyze your own listening and interviewing skills.
Please share your paper through google docs with comm.110.malone@gmail.com
In the first section of the paper, you should analyze the oral history to identify some key themes or ideas that emerged. You should then make connections between those ideas and the research that you did beforehand. You may want to connect this part of your paper with the second part of your paper.
In the second part of your paper, you should talk about what you learned about the listening process, yourself and your own listening skills. In order to write this paper, you should first re-read your notes from our class lecture on empathic listening and then you should re-read the course textbook on listening and interviewing.
NEXT, you should listen to the entire oral history again, and take note of the way that you asked questions:
- Did you ask open ended questions?
- Did you ask follow up questions to the things that your narrator said?
- Were you using the empathic listening process that we talked about in class?
- Did you miss any great opportunities to follow up with any of the things your narrator said?
Please identify patterns of your listening and question asking that define your STRENGTHS as a listener (and interviewer) and your AREAS FOR GROWTH. Give concrete specific details from this interview (including the timecode from the interview) and set some goals for your listening and interviewing skills in the future.
I will expect you to use vocabulary from course lecture and from the textbook as you analyze your own listening and interviewing skills.
Please share your paper through google docs with comm.110.malone@gmail.com
