Interview Sumary

Mrinalini Manektala

Writing and Reading

Hem Paudel

3 February 2016

Interview Summary

            I am a Human Physiology major, so when thinking of people to interview I automatically thought of people who teach my science and math classes since those are the classes that I have to take for my major. The person I ended up contacting for my interview was my teaching assistant for Principles of Chemistry, Austin Gessell. He was a chemistry major in undergraduate school and is a first year graduate student here so I chose him because I knew that he would know a lot about different types of writing because he has been in undergraduate school recently and is still in graduate school. What I found out from my interview with Austin Gessell is that most of his experience with writing is academic writing. He said that it has always come easy to him rather than non-academic and creative writing, which he says is good since he has to do so much for it for his major. He said that creative writing or non-academic writing is hard for him and he would always prefer academic and scholarly writing over it. He says that even though it can be a long process sometimes, he genuinely enjoys doing it because he loves his job and the research that he does with it. Austin said that his most difficult projects have been journal entries he has had to do for school, but it has been worth it since he will have to do it for his job and for graduate school. He says that academic and scholarly writing is something he will be doing throughout graduate school, but he can see himself doing it in the future after graduate school as well.