Report on my Interviews

Luckily both of my interviews were moved to Monday so I can write this post sooner than I thought! Yay!

1. Three genres that my interviewees talked about are:

• Data Analysis
• Social Writing (I'll elaborate)
• Consideration of Law Enforcement (I'll also elaborate)

2. Data analysis is, while it exists as a writing of its own, was mainly talked about as a method to use to gain information for other writings- a bridge if you will. The data is used to see whether or not certain hypotheses are valid. Social writing was done by both my interviewees, Bambauer with a focus on use of drug sniffing dogs and Barnes on racial profiling and the stigma that surrounds police today. I read papers from each of them, and social writings tend to focus on today's issues, mainly controversy in fields that are considered important. Consideration of Law Enforcement can be it's own genre but was mostly manipulated by my interviewees as an element for their papers, but it's prevalence stems from how relevant it is today. 

3. What seemed challenging for my interviewees was that sometimes you want to write about something that you have a passion for or interest in, but not much research has been conducted about it. This can result in sparse sources or, on rare occasion, the task of doing your own research. 

4. Bambauer in particular seemed to be very rewarded by the fact that many times she has to go into a writing with an open mind and exploratory initiative. She said that sometimes she may think one thing but by doing the research realizes that another is true, which she find very rewarding. 

5. Examples of these can be found on CNN every day. The Black Lives Matter movement has brought to light the injustice of the police force and that is a main focus of Barnes. Their topics are very easily accessed because they both write in relevant categories for today's issues.