Semi-formal

There are three types of interviews: structured interviews, semi structured interviews, and unstructured interviews. Structured interviews are interviews that are formal such as telephone interviews, survey research and political polling. The interview is set up with a designed place ahead of time and a set of questions preplanned. Semi structured interviews are interviews that allows the interviewee to talk about a topic more “open minded” (pg. 87) rather than structured and to the point. The…

Translation existence results from the expansion and diversification of languages making individuals in need to collaborate and interact with each other and communicate. This implies that it has been practiced for thousands of years since the need for translation emerges when two (or more) different languages come into contact with one another. Its significance shows up from the earliest of the human development and civilization since it was – and still is – an important factor in establishing…

Lawrence Venuti who is a translation theorist describes the role of translator in comparative literature in his book “The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation” (1995). The two translation strategies are discussed in terms of “domestication” and “foreignization”. Domestication is to reduce the foreignness or the strangeness of the foreign text to be used in target language. When a foreign text is domesticated, the reader of target language easily understands it as if it is a part…

Have you ever been close to dying? I have. It was June 23, 2015. It was very hot that day in eastern Union county. I had spent the whole day at my grandmothers house cutting, splitting, and stacking wood. As you can imagine I was very tired and ready to be home so that I could crawl into bed and sleep away the stress of the day. I had my learners permit for about a month at the time and my father asked me to drive home, but I could barely lift my arms from all the work we had done that day so he…

the accident we heard about earlier” said the man seated at the computer desk. “Perfect, put me on air in 30” responded the news women. She was skinny and tall with chin length blonde hair and blue eyes. “A man named Derek Urban has been hit by a semi truck, the truck has driven away. Derek is dealing with major medical issues and is currently at the George Rise hospital.” “Anything else I need to know before I go live?” “Yes, but I can’t access it in tell the hospital puts his medical…

Data Collection - Professional and Expert Interviews Primary data was collected by conducting semi-structured interviews of professionals and experts in the field of medical marijuana recommendation and distribution in each of the three states utilizing a uniform set of open-ended questions. This data was coded and analyzed to further determine if the FDA regulation medical marijuana would protect vulnerable populations or if vulnerable populations can by protected through state medical…

GEOG 1992-108 Jifeng Wang 10/10/2015 Position Paper #1 Globalization can improve the lives of people both in core and peripheral country, if core countries and peripheral countries work together to improve education, economic growth, health care and birth control. Globalization is showing its own positive value, which encourage closer communicating on many countries. World Trade Organization (WTO) helps core and peripheral countries trade goods with…

can be crucial for further understanding. For example, the crossing of arms can indicate if a person is being defensive about a topic. The methodology of the interview would be semi-structured. A semi-structured interview has various advantages. One advantage is the ability to have a controlled method of data collection. A semi-structure interview has a series of identical question that is applied to all participant of a study. The data that results from identical questions is comparable and…

The journal describes how selection process can be improved using a structured interview, and also asses the many way an interview can be structured. In addition, it’s important to mention the article have evaluated the structure or the standardization of interview and divided them into two particular categories; first through what influence the subject matter of the of a particular interview, and second by the process of evaluation of the information received within a given interview. The…

The next article that will be critically examined comes from an academic who focuses her work on qualitative research methodology in a variety of disciplines, including anthropology. Kathryn Roulston’s article titled Considering Quality in Qualitative Interviewing looks at how the quality of interviews conducted by people in the field affect the outcome of the work that follows the research process. As well, she also illustrates the flack that researchers receive sometimes from their…