{"id":5406,"date":"2008-03-21T08:10:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T08:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2008-03-21T08:10:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T08:10:31","slug":"tips-for-student-interviewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5406","title":{"rendered":"tips for student interviewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students often seem to be required now to interview “experts” as sources for their term papers. For whatever reason, I get several interview requests each week from students who are not enrolled at my university. I am generally inclined to help them, but I’ve developed some tips that other interview targets might want to borrow, and professors might want to recommend to their students:<\/p>\n

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  • Don’t tell me that you want to interview me because you need several sources for a required paper. Tell me that you are interested in an important topic and want to talk to me because I seem to know something about it.\n
  • Before you contact me, read at least some of the most prominently posted material on my organization’s website<\/a>. I will help you to navigate through our site, but I want you to look first. Ideally, your questions will be prompted by something that my colleagues or I have written or said.\n
  • Send me the questions by email so that I can respond right away and don’t have to email you back to schedule a time for a call.\n
  • Be polite. For example, “thank you” is considered a nice ending to an email. (Email, btw, is an old-fashioned alternative to texting.)<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Students often seem to be required now to interview “experts” as sources for their term papers. For whatever reason, I get several interview requests each week from students who are not enrolled at my university. I am generally inclined to help them, but I’ve developed some tips that other interview targets might want to borrow, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}