The brief requirement is to find a real consulting staff member, ask them some questions and record them to form a report, the content of which must be related to the content of the material.The brief requirement is to find a real consulting staff member, ask them some questions and record them to form a report, the content of which must be related to the content of the material.
The mechanics of the report
You are required to write a summary report deriving from the semi-structured interview with the practicing consultant. Please select 10 of the 11 questions presented in the interview questionnaire , structure the report around the selected questions (including sub-questions), and report the results in a professionally written document. You will need to exercise some judgment in deciding what to include to reflect as much as possible the content of your specific interview, while keeping it interesting and useful.
The report should be between 15 and 20 double-spaced typewritten pages long, or about 4,000 to 5,000 words, title page excluded.
This individual assignment has 20% of your total grade assigned to it. The report will be graded out of 100 points based on the following criteria:
10% for form, format, style
10% for coherence and clarity
70% for key findings and issues (breadth and depth)
10% for summary of what was learned in the interview that you did not know before (usefulness of the interview; one page at the end to conclude the report)
UPDATE：
1- For the Interview report, as the directions say, choose 10 questions. The interviews will be quite long. Leave out the question that is the least interesting/valuable for you. Use the sub-questions to better understand the main question. You may not need to ask all the sub-questions. They are there to prompt the interviewee it you need to.
2- Ask the questions, write the summarized answer, and link it briefly to the course content. Some answers will be longer than others obviously but if the question and answer take half a page that should be sufficient. Attach the actual survey and responses in the appendix..
3- Re: citations/references – if the content in the answer links to course content, then indicate that the response supported/contradicted/other the course content. If you use course content, reference it.
4- No outside sources are required.
5- Make sure to use 12 point font, double space response summaries, regular borders
6- Format for the report – List the question and provide the answer. The question can be single spaced. The response should be double spaced.
7 – Please begin the report with some background on your interviewee–who you interviewed — first name only, job title, company name or type of company.
