Sunday, February 28, 2016

My Interview Subjects

Who are we interviewing?


In this blog we are going to dig deeper into the background of Roberta Schultz and Sameera Peri.

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Roberta Schultz


Who she works for: The University of Arizona (Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Faculty Director of the Marketing Minor Program).

Higher Education: Master of Business Administration from the University of Missouri, in Kansas City and a Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration - Marketing from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Working Experience: Roberta Schultz has been teaching for over 26 years.

Roberta Schultz via Eller

Dr. Schultz's Eller homepage here.

Interview Setting: February 22, 2016 at 11 a.m. in her office at the Eller College of Management, room 325

Interview Questions:

1. What is your specific field of work?

2. How do you and others in your field formally communicate (emails, skype, etc.)

3. What audiences do you typically write to in your field?

4. How does who you're writing to affect your choice of genre?

5. What conventions do you find to be important in your most used genres?

6. What's is your favorite/ most preferred genre to use?

7. How has your choice of genre changed over the past 10-15 years?

8. How does technology affect what genres you use? Does new technology have you constantly adapting to new forms of communication?

9. Is there any genre that doesn't work well in your opinion?

10. Does time management play a factor in what genres you use or how you communicate?

11. What is the most challenging part of writing in your field?

12. What writing tips would you give to students, that could improve their communication skills?

Sameera Peri


Who she works for: The University of Arizona as a Graduate Teaching Assistant through the Eller College of Management.

Higher Education: Currently pursuing her MBA at the University of Arizona, also studied Electronics and Communications Engineering at Amrita school of engineering.

Work Experience: Worked as a Systems Engineer for IBM for a little over two years, which dealt with management in the SAP department.

Sameera Peri via LinkedIn


Find Sameera's homepage here.

Interview Setting: February 29, 2016 at 2 p.m. in her office at McClelland Hall room 404.

Interview Questions:

1. What is are you currently studying?

2. How do you and others in your position formally communicate (emails, skype, etc.)

3. What audiences do you typically write to in your field?

4. How does who you're writing to affect your choice of genre?

5. What conventions do you find to be important in your most used genres?

6. What's is your favorite/ most preferred genre to use?

7. How has your choice of genre changed over the past 10-15 years?

8. How does technology affect what genres you use? Does new technology have you constantly adapting to new forms of communication?

9. Is there any genre that doesn't work well in your opinion?

10. Does time management play a factor in what genres you use or how you communicate?

11. What is the most challenging part of writing in your field?

12. What writing tips would you give to students, that could improve their communication skills?


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