Major Writing Assignment #1: Initial thoughts (assignment for the 8/22)

Now at first glance this assignment seems heavily favored in the direction of the scientific way of writing, where even if your intended field of study isn't scientific, this assignment will be in the style of a scientific analysis of your intended field, meaning it will not be a normal writing assignment that you may be used to back in high school, where it was mostly opinionated. I believe this assignment will be more factual and analytical while taking on a new way of writing that most of us have not experienced before. Now for my intended field of study, physical therapy with an emphasis on biology, I have written lab reports in the past, but in a more generic and unspecified type of way, where there wasn't a set of concrete guidelines to follow and understand. In this assignment I hope to understand the nature of writing that my field of study requires and expects me to write, opening and broadening myself to a new genre of writing.

3 Questions/Confusions about the assignment:
1. For the interview, can we interview someone we may already know in our intended study? As in a family friend from home or former teacher/coach?

2. For the non-academic writings that we must find, how would that incorporate into the paper, especially if our fields are primarily academic(hopefully that's understandable)? I'm just confused on how we would go about finding as well as utilizing those sources in our paper.

3. May we have more than 1 interviewee? Or can we consult with more than one professional even if we don't technically interview them?


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