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Paper

Character-building stories, by Dylan Holmes.

For guidance on interviews, you might look at a 2050 interview with Sarah Winston, former President of the United States.

Assignment

If you discuss the paper or the assignment with another student—which we encourage—indicate whom you have talked with in your submitted composition. Of course your submitted composition must be written entirely by you.

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following:

You have a nightmare in which you have just landed a job as a reporter for Popular Cognition. Your boss has commanded that you interview Holmes for the next issue, but inasmuch as Holmes is travelling, your interview will be via Skype. Unfortunately, when you connect, the line in Holmes's hotel is terrible, so Holmes suggests you draft up how you think he would respond to your questions. He will use your draft as a starting point for framing his own answers.

You decide to focus your questions and draft answers Character-building stories, Holmes's latest paper.

Produce the requested interview.

When you think you are finished, go back over your report to be sure that you have provided a few interesting, specific details.