Sample Interview Creative Writing Coursework Paper (Coursework Sample)

What’s Killing American Black Infants?
FALL 2019
“Gender and the Military”
FIELD PAPER ASSIGNMENT, DUE 10/17
Write-up of an interview with someone who has served in the military (whether past or present; family members are acceptable and in fact encouraged as subjects).
The person you interview does NOT have to have served in the American military. ANY military is acceptable and even welcome.
You can also interview a scholar, professor, head of the ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) at LMU, or a student member of ROTC, etc.
You are asked to identify, at the start: the subject’s name, age, branch of Service and length of Service.
Then answer the following questions by asking the subject:
1) Why did you join the military (or what made you interested in the subject)? (Family members? Social circumstances? Etc.).
2) Describe 2-3 memorable events or experiences during your period of Service.
3) Was your time in the Service positive, negative, or both, and why---with some SPECIFICS---in other words, not just “good” or “bad,” but why (themes such as patriotism, or belief in the mission, or what you learned personally from being in the military, or what discrimination you may have suffered---all of this referring to the subject, of course, not you, the writer).
4) How do you (the interviewee) feel about changes in the military on gender---from Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to now; on the subject of transgender persons serving in the military; and on women in the military as well as women in combat.
5) FOR YOU, THE WRITER: How did this experience affect you? How did it differ, or not, from what you expected?
Try to summarize but also use quotes for Answers to 1-4.
FOUR PAGES DOUBLE SPACED, MAXIMUM.
NO FOOTNOTES.
NO BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Consider this somewhat creative and a learning experience in what may be personal terms.