10-second review: How improve students’ interviewing skills? If your subject is biased, don’t begin to argue. Take it all in. Your purpose is to gather information, not to win debate points. Write out key questions in advance. Cluster questions. Use non-questions like, “Tell me about….” Hypothetical questions can elicit surprising answers.
Source: J Brady. The Writer (November 2004), 28-31. The Writer is a magazine by writers for writers.
Comment: I have only one response to hypothetical questions: “When it happens, I’ll talk about it—and not before.” RayS.
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