Report on My Interviews

       After I had my interviews this week it was imperative that I discuss what was said by my interviewees.

Genres in the Field
       The most prominent genre written in within the fields that I interviewed, both agreed that long research papers are the main part of their field and writing style. Along with the long papers though comes with the shorter writings of abstracts, which sometimes are separate from long research papers. Also shorter works that are done are writings for grants.

How do these Genres Differ?
        The differences between these genres include length and some of the language used. Research papers are the definite longest, can be upwards of sixteen pages of writing including graphs and references. An abstract on the other hand, while usually at the beginning of a research paper, can be separate and is usually only a single paragraph.
         Grant writing is a bit different from both of these, writing to receive a grant needs to have more sway over the audience, the language while academic and formal does not have to be and sometimes should not be as scientifically wordy as a research paper or abstract would be.
       

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What is Challenging About Them?
         A large part of the challenge of research papers is the length and extent to which they have to go through. While they should publish at least once a year this requires a lot of work. As both of my interviewees are also teachers along with their research positions they really have to have a time trying to balance all this work.
        A challenging part of grant writing is that they have to be persuasive about their project that it would seem to deserve funding, they can't just use big fancy words and expect the funders would understand or want to bother to understand.

What is Exciting About Them?
            To my interviewees the exciting part of writing is getting to tell everyone about their views and the new information that they have been able to discover through their research. Even if what the results of a study turn out opposite of what was expected they significantly can impact the field in that way still.

Hide and Go Seek within Media
        Finding genre examples are relatively easy through social media; social media has drastically affected the way research gets out into the public, now anyone can search for the articles and generally is able to find them relatively easily; social media like twitter is very accessible with such topics as well as online journals and journal reviews. Its a brave new world of open possibilities.