Interview Production Agriculturalist Pick someone that is agricultural production to conduct an interview. Use the year constructs below to frame in your questions. The goal of the assignment is investigative inquiry & research. Using APA format, develop a title page, abstract, body, & references to record your results. Use the link below to review and format your paper. The interview will only consist of the four areas stated above. The paper should be in 12 pt. Times New Roman font. It must be typed. Double spaced. If you use recording devices, you must inform the candidate you are interviewing them by voice or tape and gain their permission. The length of the paper will be a minimum of 8 pages when using APA appropriately. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ Age ranges used for the interview: 0-16 16-35 35-55 55-65 Below is a list of agricultural production questions. There are many others you may ask. This is just a short list. Feel free to expand on them as necessary. Possible Questions: What areas do you farm? Do you have a plant or animal farm? Do you own acreage? How much? How has farming formed your ethics, work ethic, morals, values, etc..? What keeps you engaged in the process? What keeps you motivated to continue? What are your primary areas of focus? Crops, livestock, etc..? What age are you? Will your family take over when you retire? Do you rely on subsidies? Do you use value added products as additional income sources? Are corporate farms a good idea for rural America? Should smaller farms be the standard or the rule? Describe your life being raised on the farm? What market system do you believe in? Will your kids be able to keep the farm? What are your best characteristics of living a rural life? *Please feel free to ask any follow-up or additional questions that you deem as appropriate. Title Page: (Page 1) Header last name, year ex. Smith, 2012 left Margin. (occurs on each page) Assignment Title Interview of Jane Doe: A Rural Sociological Perspective. (center on page) Class Title Rural Sociology 108 (Center on page). Full Name John Smith Center on page. Date Due February 16, 2012 Center on page. Abstract: (Page 2) On the first line of the abstract page, center the word Abstract (no bold, formatting, italics, underlining, or quotation marks). On the next line, write a concise summary of the key points of your interview. (Do not indent.) Your abstract should contain at least your interview topic, interview questions, participants, methods, results, data analysis, and conclusions. You may also include possible implications of your interview and future work you see connected with your findings. Your abstract should be a single paragraph double-spaced. Your abstract should be between 150 and 250 words. You must also list keywords from your interview in your abstract. To do this, indent as you would if you were starting a new paragraph, type Keywords: (italicized), and then list your keywords Body: (5 pages) Main portion of the interview. Describes the conversational tone taking place between you and the subject. Separate portions of the body by age ranges as listed above. Use in-text citations to quote your subject. You must use the APA format for at least four citations within the text. Most of the writing can be in descriptive form. Explaining what was discussed during the interview. If you use the age ranges to break the body into four sections, describe the answers you were given from the subject under each area. References: (1 page) Use four additional web references to prep or evaluate your interview process. Two must be journal references and two must be web references. Follow the format below. Sample Journal Reference Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(30), 5-13. Sample Web Reference Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/ Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living Web. A list apart: For people who make websites, 149. Retrieved from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving

Interview Production Agriculturalist Pick someone that is agricultural production to conduct an interview. Use the year constructs below to frame in your questions. The goal of the assignment is investigative inquiry & research. Using APA format, develop a title page, abstract, body, & references to record your results. Use the link below to review and format your paper. The interview will only consist of the four areas stated above. The paper should be in 12 pt. Times New Roman font. It must be typed. Double spaced. If you use recording devices, you must inform the candidate you are interviewing them by voice or tape and gain their permission. The length of the paper will be a minimum of 8 pages when using APA appropriately. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ Age ranges used for the interview: 0-16 16-35 35-55 55-65 Below is a list of agricultural production questions. There are many others you may ask. This is just a short list. Feel free to expand on them as necessary. Possible Questions: What areas do you farm? Do you have a plant or animal farm? Do you own acreage? How much? How has farming formed your ethics, work ethic, morals, values, etc..? What keeps you engaged in the process? What keeps you motivated to continue? What are your primary areas of focus? Crops, livestock, etc..? What age are you? Will your family take over when you retire? Do you rely on subsidies? Do you use value added products as additional income sources? Are corporate farms a good idea for rural America? Should smaller farms be the standard or the rule? Describe your life being raised on the farm? What market system do you believe in? Will your kids be able to keep the farm? What are your best characteristics of living a rural life? *Please feel free to ask any follow-up or additional questions that you deem as appropriate. Title Page: (Page 1) Header last name, year ex. Smith, 2012 left Margin. (occurs on each page) Assignment Title Interview of Jane Doe: A Rural Sociological Perspective. (center on page) Class Title Rural Sociology 108 (Center on page). Full Name John Smith Center on page. Date Due February 16, 2012 Center on page. Abstract: (Page 2) On the first line of the abstract page, center the word Abstract (no bold, formatting, italics, underlining, or quotation marks). On the next line, write a concise summary of the key points of your interview. (Do not indent.) Your abstract should contain at least your interview topic, interview questions, participants, methods, results, data analysis, and conclusions. You may also include possible implications of your interview and future work you see connected with your findings. Your abstract should be a single paragraph double-spaced. Your abstract should be between 150 and 250 words. You must also list keywords from your interview in your abstract. To do this, indent as you would if you were starting a new paragraph, type Keywords: (italicized), and then list your keywords Body: (5 pages) Main portion of the interview. Describes the conversational tone taking place between you and the subject. Separate portions of the body by age ranges as listed above. Use in-text citations to quote your subject. You must use the APA format for at least four citations within the text. Most of the writing can be in descriptive form. Explaining what was discussed during the interview. If you use the age ranges to break the body into four sections, describe the answers you were given from the subject under each area. References: (1 page) Use four additional web references to prep or evaluate your interview process. Two must be journal references and two must be web references. Follow the format below. Sample Journal Reference Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(30), 5-13. Sample Web Reference Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/ Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living Web. A list apart: For people who make websites, 149. Retrieved from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving