An Interview With A Friend Analysis

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First draft It was a pretty nice day, and there was enough sunshine. The sunshine and warm temperature made me happy and calmed me down. I have called my interviewee previously for the reason of interview, and he invited me to his home it was pretty nice house in north of Edmonton . My interviewee 's name is Wu Xiang, and English name is XIANG. He is a IT engineer of Canadian west bank and immigrate from China to Canada two years ago he was a government officer before he came Canada but most surprise me is that he was a part time writer before. I first meet him at a reading club last year the same interesting and topic make us become good friend. I arrived at his room earlier than we appointed time. When I knocked the door, his wife opened the door and smiled at me, then I felt not very nervous than before knocking the door. Xiang wore a set of red casual cloth, because he is crazy about red color for everything, and he thinks the red color could bring luck.
We sit at opposite side and talked face-to-face in his living room. Before we started, his wife gave us two cups of tea that is a kind of traditional Chinese
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He thinks if he doesn 't have any idea, he cannot write anything. When he has some idea about the topic of essay, he would write down several key words as outline which can help him to clarify his thoughts. “Outline is just like a leader, and can make me write essay more clearly and logically on the time limit” he said. He writes outline, which is just in academic writing in the limited time. It also could be a blueprint of building and enhance the efficiency of writing. I asked him whether he writes quotation and what kinds of quotation he prefers to write. He thinks quotation is the evidence of supporting his own view, and it is important. He prefers to paraphrase, because he wants to write more in his own words to explain and analyze

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