English 306: Introduction to Professional Writing

attached is my ppt final presentation.

Darcie Fuller

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My interview report draft is attached in pdf format.

Darcie Fuller

Extended Account of Interview

I interview Marydell Forbes, part-time news reporter for the Purdue News Service and part-time columnist for Helen magazine, a local magazine geared toward women. Since Marydell is a part-time employee with Purdue, she suggested we meet in the early afternoon before she left campus for the day. So, we met on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 1pm. The interview was conducted in her office at the Purdue News Service department in ENAD and lasted just a few minutes longer than an hour.

Interaction Between Interviewer/Interviewee

I am going to interview Marydell Forbes, a local writer of West Lafayette. She writes for the local woman’s magazine Helen, and she also writes part-time for the Purdue News Service staff. The magazine Marydell writes for targets women in the Lafayette and West Lafayette area. Issues are released bi-monthly and include profiles of local women, events and features of the community that affect women, and tips for women. These tips include areas in beauty, home, parenting, business, finance and many other topics.

The mapping project proved to be challenging. From choosing a topic to producing the final map, each section of this project had its positives and negatives. An issue on campus was to be used and improved in accordance with the appropriate target audience and rhetoric. I created a map to aid students in locating different coffee shops on and near Purdue’s campus.

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I feel that I have a good start on the mapping project; however, I feel that I should be further than I where I am right now. Gathering the information has proven to be more time consuming than I had previously planned.

Research

When making a decision on campus about where to go, it helps to have a specific map as a guide. When students do not know where the nearest coffee shop, pizza place, book store, parking lot, or library is located, they are left without a few of the essentials as a college student. Mapping out locations for these places eases the minds of students new to campus as well as students currently living on campus.

Campus Issue to be Mapped

Everyone on a college campus has a busy schedule and needs some form of pick-me-up during the day. Most students and faculty members on Purdue University’s campus choose coffee or sugar to get through the day. With the rising popularity of Starbucks, most students look past the local coffee shops where they could find cheaper and better tasting coffee with an added homey atmosphere instead of mass produced coffee. Students and faculty need to be informed of their options when choosing their next caffeine fix.