My Interview Subjects

Now that I've finished Project 1 we are moving straight forward to Project 2 - a tale of genres galore and the people who write them in my specific field, analyzing their rhetorical situation. 

The first person I interviewed on February 22 was Benjamin Renquist.

"Benjamin Renquist" 2016 via acbs website.

He is seen as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences who is a published researcher and professor, focusing on Animal Nutrition among other things in his research.

Benjamin got his B.S. in Animal Science from Colorado State University, his M.S. in animal science from the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. in Nutrition from the University of California, Davis. 

Professionally, he has worked in the field since 2007 after he got his Ph.D., publishing, researching, and teaching.

Location Time and Place: In front of CC's Coffeehouse at 4:15 on February 22, 2016.

List of Questions for Benjamin:

1. How has your writing style changed from your time at University of California, Davis to the present day time?

2. Do you present your information differently with your scientific audience verses your students that you teach in ANS 334? How?

3. What do you enjoy most about writing about your specific interests of undernutrition and stress in an animal's diet?

4. After you completed an interacted QRG, is there other types of media that you want to try out in the future?
5. Why did you decide to pinpoint and narrow your research to the psychological control of feed intake during stress?
6. What did being a Postdoctoral fellow at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center entail and what did you learn in that?
7. How did you go about writing your research paper on the "Effects of age on body condition and production parameters of multiparous beef cows"?
8. What is your favorite thing about teaching for college students?

The second person I interviewed was S. Patricia Stock on February 23.

"S. Patricia Stock" 2016 via Dept
of Entomology website.

She is in the Department of Entomology at the University of Arizona and is also a heavy researcher and professor with numerous publications, speaking about insect pathogens as model systems.

Professor Stock got her B.S. in Zoology at the University of La Planta, Argentina and her Ph.D. in Natural Sciences with a focus on Parasitology at the National University of La Planta, Argentina.

Professionally, she has worked in her specific field with countless publications since 1992.

Location Time and Place: In her office at the Marley building at 12:30 on February 23, 2016.

List of Questions for S. Patricia:

1. After looking at some of your research, it looks like you do a lot of published articles such as your Bacterial strain diversity. Do you use other types of media to explain your research?
2. Do you present your information differently with your scientific audience verses your students in your Honors Freshman Colloquium? How?
3. How has your writing process changed from your time at the University of La Planta, Argentina to now?
4. How was your work in Argentina differ from your work in the United States?
5. Did your research bring you to the United States?
6. What made you want to go into entomology and working with insects rather than animals?
7. In the past five years, you have published around 30 research publications, do you plan to publish more and would they be on the same topic?
8. What made you become interested in Parasitology?