Report on My Interviews

Here are some things I learned from my interviews!

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1)What are the most significant or interesting genres that you learned about from your interviewees? Please identify at least THREE specific genres from your discipline/field of study that your interview subjects discussed writing within. 

From both my interviewees, I discovered they have produced content in a written scientific journal format; in a presentation format and as well as in an educational journal format. 

2)How do these genres differ from one another? Think about things like genre convention, content, purpose, audience, message, and context as you describe these differences.

The differences in say a scientific journal and a scientific education journal are mainly different in terms of genre convention. Whereas a scientific journal is written concisely, and very factual; in an educational journal the content needs to be written in a more narrative structure and things need to be less concise and explained more in detail. 

3)Based on the information you gathered in your interviews, what     is challenging and/or difficult about writing within these genres (from a professional's point of view)?

The most challenging thing I discovered about writing within these genres is to be able to vividly explain all the information the authors want to communicate to their audience in as little words as possible. Like Talanquer, one of my interviewees, said,"Space is money".

4)Based on the information you gathered in your interviews, what is exciting and/or rewarding about writing within these genres (from a professional's point of view)?

Based on the information, the most exciting thing from a professional's point of view is to be able to see the peers in your field responding and engaging to the ideas and themes presented in your work.

5)Where in mass media - popular, academic, and/or social - can examples of this genre be found? If genre examples cannot be found within mass media easily, where can genre examples be found/located?

Some examples can be found from Pubmed, a database full of scientific journals, to Talanquer's own research page full of examples of his own works as examples.