Interview Transcript, Writing Counterstories article, and Source Matrix

    

    The assignment that I enjoyed the most and liked conducting, was the interview transcription for my research argument: Interview Transcription: SDSU transit Prior to doing this assignment, we had to read the article, Counterstory article I liked this assignment because it showed me the importance of counterstories and how there are alternative or multiple perspectives to one story. I found this article important to my research paper, because the goal of our research paper assignment was to challenge the powerhouse. In my paper, the powerhouse was SDSU. After conducting my interview, I had to create an interview transcript to have evidence for the research paper I would do later in the semester. Even though this assignment was time consuming with the way how I had to organize the paper and try to get an accurate transcript from the video recording to the paper, it allowed me to formulate an argument from the key words from the transcription and it motivated me to want to write the paper, since I formulated an idea of how I wanted to go about my paper. The skills that it taught me is to look at key-words, highlight phrases that consistently come up, and how to conduct my own research. In addition to the transcript, another assignment part of this research that helped me a lot was the Source Matrix. At first, I did dread trying to find resources using the SDSU library because it was difficult to navigate and sometimes my search would not match with the articles. However, using the source matrix taught me how to stay organized and see if all of my sources actually contain a strong argument in one document.