Interview Questions—

ENGLISH 332

• Try to think of your earliest memories of writing and reading. What do you remember of reading and writing before you began school? Who helped you with it and what was that like?

• What kinds of writing did you see your parents, siblings, and other family members doing as you were growing up? What did they read, where, and when?

• What stories did your parents tell you about their own efforts to learn to read and write? What kinds of values did they place on reading and writing?

• How did reading and writing change as you entered elementary school? What did you do with it?

• How you were taught writing in junior high/middle school? Describe the different texts you wrote and read.

• What stories can you tell about when, where, and how you first came into contact with computers or computer games? When you first started reading and writing with computers?

• Tell me about a really positive writing experience. Recreate that experience in as much detail as you can.

• Now tell me about a negative writing experience in your past. What made it so bad?

• In the next ten years, what will reading and writing become? What skills and understandings about online literacy will people need to have? Why?