Project #2: Professional Profile

For this project, you will need to contact and

interview in person

someone who is currently

working in your professional or academic field. Ideally, this individual holds a job that you

would like to have when you graduate.

Your interview will be written as

a profile article for a department newsletter

distributed to

other students in your discipline.

The

purpose

of the article is to describe the working life of someone in your field for other

students in your discipline. As part of this description, your article should give details about

the role of writing in your interviewee’s work.

Your feature article will need to include the following:

1.

An appropriate introduction that identifies the person you interviewed, conveys a

sense of the interviewee and his or her work, and

states

the purpose of the article.

2.

A description of the nature of the work the interviewee does. This could include a

description, for example, of a typical day (or typical duties, responsibilities), the most

stressful part of the job (or the most rewarding, most di

ffi

cult, most boring, etc.).

3.

A description of the role of written language in your interviewee’s work.

What

kind of writing

does your interviewee have to do in order to be successful

on the job? How much writing is involved and what kind is most frequent or

most important?

4.

Advice from your interviewee for students planning to enter the field.

5.

A prediction concerning the future professional lives of students in your field (i.e.,

those who will read the article). Include a discussion of the role writing will play in your

professional/academic future. To do this, reflect on the information you learned in the

interview and supply relevant examples.

6.

Support for your statements from quoting or paraphrasing the comments of your

Here are some smaple profile provided:http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~cba/ids/MIS-news2011.pdf

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~cba/iContact/2012July/b.html

interviewee