I HAVE A FINAL PAPER THAT NEEDS TO BE EDITED SO THAT IT’LL GO WITH WHAT’S REQUIRED ACCORDING TO MY GRADE RUEBRIC. I HAVE ATTACHED A COPY OF THE PAPER.
Final Paper: Oral History Interview Paper
Throughout the course you will be exploring various aspects of culture and intercultural communications. Your final assignment in this course will be to conduct an extensive oral history interview with a person who is somewhat older than you and from a culture or subgroup that you are not a member of. This person can be a relative or acquaintance who is from a different generation. It can be someone who immigrated to this country either recently or some time ago. Or it can be someone who belongs to a different subgroup from you and whose cultural experiences you believe would be very different from your own. Obtain permission from the person you are interviewing to record the conversation (either an audio or a video and audio recording) or to take handwritten notes during the interview.
Your overarching goals during the oral history interview are as follows:
After you have conducted the interview review your recording or your notes and write a six- to eight-page paper (excluding a title page and a reference page) in which you discuss aspects of this person’s culture and/or subcultures and communication issues related to his or her cultural identity. In the paper you must also include the following:
Your paper should be written in paragraph form not in a question and answer format. Thus you must weave the information you present into a coherent narrative form paraphrasing the information gleaned from the interview or using direct quotations from your interview subject as appropriate. Your primary sources of information for this paper will be the interview subject and the course text. However your assignment is not merely to describe the conversations you had with this person but also to critically evaluate what you learned from them and to tie this information to concepts you have studied in this course about culture and intercultural communication.
To meet this objective you must relate ideas you learned during the interview to material you have studied in the text or other course resources and supplement your textbook and course resources by researching at least one key cultural issue in greater depth using the Ashford University Library and/or the Internet.
A proposal and a preliminary reference page for the final Oral History Interview paper are due in Week Two of the course and a draft of this paper is due in Week Four. The final Oral History Interview Paper is due at the end of Week Five. Specific requirements for each of these assignments are outlined in the written assignments section of the appropriate course weeks. The final version of the paper must be submitted in Week Five and must be between six and eight pages in length (six to eight pages of text plus a title page and a reference page). This paper is designated as a *Portfolio Project* which means you should retain a copy of the final version of the paper (after incorporating any instructor feedback) to be used in a personal portfolio you will prepare in the capstone course in your Bachelor of Arts in Communication program.
Writing the Final Paper The Final Paper:
