My Interviewees as Professional Writers

Now that I've found out a little about my interviewees as people, and their professional back ground, I need to find out who they are as writers in their field. I'll be finding examples of their writing online and examining them.

Interviewee Numero Uno: Linda Norrix

Linda Norrix was probably my best choice in interviewee for this project because she has a plethora of published research articles online. Jackpot! She has lots of articles relating to pediatric audiology, and a number of other hearing-related articles. She's quite the established research article...writer...person.

      Examples:

The first example I found of Dr. Norrix's work is a research article entitled "Audiometric Thresholds: Stimulus Considerations in Sound Field and Under Earphones". This article is about a study done on adults to test how FRESH noise obtains hearing thresholds, and how using narrowband noise can have some pitfalls. The results apparently showed that using FRESH noise was appropriate, but narrowband noise results were progressively inaccurate as the hearing loss increased.

The second example I found of Dr. Norrix's writing was also a research article, and this one was entitled "Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder: A Review". This article was written to help people understand ANSD. It was merely created to inform people and doctors of exactly what goes on with ANSD and how to work with someone who has been diagnosed with ANSD. It contains many different pieces of information intended to educate healthcare professionals.

Interviewee Numero Dos: Carole Wymer

I had a harder time finding publications from Ms. Wymer, mainly because she is a professor and not a researcher. To the best of my knowledge at this point, the only real published examples of writing by Ms. Wymer are episodes of an informative video series called Talking Matters!

     Examples:

The first example of Carole Wymer's writing work was a video called "Typical Speech and Language Development". This video seems to be primarily geared toward either parents, or students who are studying Speech, Language, and Hearing sciences here at the U of A. It's informative in diagramming exactly what speech and language development should generally look like.

The second example I found was a video entitled "Speech and Language Disorders". This video seems more geared toward SLHS students because it talks about the definitions of speech and language. That doesn't remove the parts of it that seem geared toward parents, though. It also details some of the more common speech and language disorders and brings up a string of "characteristics that may be a concern".

Differences between the two?

There are many differences between the writing examples of my interviewees. Dr. Norrix has written many research articles which are formatted a lot like a lab report. It details the purpose of an experiment, discusses the procedure, presents the results, and concludes with a discussion of the results. Ms. Wymer, on the other hand, has made movies that are informative for her student and parents. It is much less professionally based, and doesn't make me feel like I'm sitting in science class.

 

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