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Name: Suwanit Tachothai (Nelly)

Instructor: Christina Brady

Class section: EAP 506

Interview reflection paper

Recently, a number of international students who come to study abroad seem to be increasing.

Most of them aim for an achievement in educational institutions. It has been increasingly more

difficult for international graduate students to understand the academic expectations in terms of

academic writing. As a part of my assignment, I had a chance to interview Alissa Patanarut, a

second-year student of MBA of the George Mason University. I relished the opportunity to

interview her and came up with some questions that were relevant to my discipline. I gathered

information with regard to set questions for interview about interviewee’s general background

and writing in our discipline, MBA. Basically, the questions were divided into four categories,

which are interviewee’s background information, conventions of writing or paper format, the

genres of academic papers in the major and lastly and the recommendations for improving

writing in the discipline. The interview from people, who are more advance than us, is a process

for students in order to understand and learn more about my discipline as it is vital that I prepare

myself adequately in advance.

To begin with the interview, I asked Alissa questions about her personal background. She

is now studying MBA as her second Master degree. The reasons that she chose to pursue an

MBA because she wanted to formalize her work experience and possibly advance her career into

management/project management. After completing her first Master degree of Public Policy, she

thought the MBA would be a great complement to her personal combination of experience and

knowledge. Alissa also concluded that academic experiences definitely have helped her develop

a solid knowledge base, one that expands to such a wide variety of different areas. Learning

experience helps her to be a strong contributor and an independent worker in her professional

roles.

While discussing the topic of writing conventions, I asked her about the citation style that

is expected by the professors in her discipline. She described that the APA citation manual style

is one of the most common citation style that the business school students use. She also said that

most of the professors are quite flexible because they are more concerned about the content and

the way we express our ideas towards the assignments. Moreover, they concentrated more on

seeing student’s analysis skill above anything else. In contrary, she referred that her employer

prefers the AMA style guide to be used in the report. Even though, in my personal experience, I

Interview Reflection Paper