Upon completing my semester story about the social climate at Wittenberg and how it has changed over the course of four years, I am now looking back on the assignment and I thouroughly enjoyed it. Although it took me a while to get kick started on it, this was the first story where the number of people I interviewed was in the double didgits. Even having worked for a newspaper last summer I did not have over ten interviews for a single story.
Within the fourteen people I interviewed for this story, six of them were either owners of their establishments or an administrator. I feel that through this story alone I learned a lot about both my writing and interview skills. I think that this was the perfect assignment for the class to reach a little bit out of their comfort zone and interview people that they didnt necessarily ever want to talk to. For me it was Dean Kelly, she scares the shit out of me for some reason.
I am amazed at the amount of work that I put into this article, and I am sure most of the class can feel the same way. This was a great assignment, and it has definitely motivated me to want to interview more people for my stories because it just makes it that much easier to write when there is a pool of quotes to pick from.
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