My Interview Subjects

A central part of our our Project 2 are interviews with professionals in the field of study or the profession that we would like to go in. For my interviews, I will be conducting two, one with a doctor, and the other with a researcher so that I can get a broader view of the kinds of communications that professionals in medicine deal with.

Dr. E. Fiona Bailey: Interview #1

Associate professor, University of Arizona

Adjunct assistant research professor, Speech and Hearing Science

Assistant Professor, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute

Attended undergraduate in Australia

Receive PhD from the University of Arizona

How many years has she worked at U of A?

Our interview will be held on February 23, 2016 at 3:15 pm in Gittings Rooms 113.

Image via physiology.arizona.edu

Dr. Bailey's website for her research can be found here.

Her U of A physiology page can be found here.

Questions:

• Research is obviously something that you do a lot of? Can you explain what you do with research exactly? How would you describe your job? 

• The most recent journal that you worked on, according to the U of A library, was about respiratory training in people with hypertension. When you write an article like this, what is your writing process? How do you go about writing something like this?

• What’s the most common genre of writing that you do? Have you ever done any sort of non-text based communication, like YouTube videos? Or speaking at a conference?

• Does social media and communicating/writing that way ever play into your job? If so, how? (Could you lead me to some examples of these ways of communication?)

• What kind of internal audience do you find yourself mostly writing for or to? Internal, as in people from your work.

• What kind of external audience do you find reads your work.do you communicate with?

• Has there ever been a particularly intimidating audience that you’ve had to write for? How did you prepare this writing differently, if at all, than the others?

• From start to finish, from planning your project, to publishing it, about how long of a process is this? 

• Do you have any sort of peer review process for publication?   

• How do you approach time management for your projects?    

Dr. Margaret Wilkes: Interview #2

Rheumatology specialist, Rheumatology Specialists of South Florida

Attended the University of Pennsylvania

Did residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital

Fellowship at the University of Health Center of Pittsburgh

Has been working for 18 years.

Our interview will be held Monday, February 29, 2016 at 3 pm via phone. 

Photo via Rheumatology Associates of South Florida.

Dr. Wilkes' bio from her office can be found here.

Questions:

• Can you describe what exactly your job entails?

• As a practicing doctor, the genres of writing that you do are going to be a lot different than someone, in say research. What would you say that your primary genre of writing is?

• Thanks to the internet, I was able to find an article that you wrote with some other people about treating a specific type of lung disease. Would this be an example of a typical type of writing that someone in your field would do?

• Have you ever done any sort of writing that is not text based? Like a presentation or a series of Youtube videos, etc.?

• Do you ever use social media with your job? (Could you point me towards some examples of this social media?)

• What kind of internal audience do you find yourself writing for?

• Do you ever write for the general public? How does this writing differ from your more professional writing?

• When you publish a paper, from start to finish, about how long does it take?

• Do you have any specific ways of managing your time as far as writing goes?

• What is the review process for your writing?