Throughout the writing process of the Interview Paper, I have improved my skills in analyzing the rhetorical situation, peer-reviewing, and interviewing. For example, I have improved my skills at peer-reviewing and interviewing through my usage of the Course Learning Outcomes of this class. First of all, I did “Develop and engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.” By following the instructions on the peer-review assignment for the Interview Paper and putting my flair on it, I made the best peer reviews I have ever made. These peer reviews were better than the peer reviews for the previous assignment in this class, which did not follow the instructions, was more disorganized, and had fewer words than the peer review for the Interview Paper. I was also able to “Acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistic differences as resources, and draw on those resources to develop rhetorical sensibility.” I acknowledged my interviewee’s range of linguistic differences and used them as a resource in my interview to augment its quality by building rapport. This rapport-building gave me a goldmine of information in the interview, as my interviewee, Kaitlyn Antigua, opened up during the interview due to my building up of rapport. I later used this glut of information from the interview in the essay, which drastically simplified the writing process for me. 

The essay’s characteristic features are the headings and subheadings that tell the reader about the content of the subsequent writing, which helped to improve the Interview Paper’s flow. I also made this paper more like a conversation and an investigation than essays I have previously done, helping to smooth the Interview Paper out and to make it feel less dry than previous essays I wrote. I wrote this essay because I was always curious about the artists’ subculture, as many people close to me have an infatuation with making art, just like my interviewee Kaitlyn Antigua. I hoped to describe her position within the Artists’ subculture and how she interacts with people and things outside of it to enlighten my audience on her subculture. The audience for this essay is my classmates and my professor, who are interested in learning more about their peer or student, Kaitlyn Antigua, and her subculture to get to know her better. My relationship with the essay’s audience is that we both know the prompt and had interviewed people on their various subcultures. However, I know more about the artists’ subculture than my audience, meaning that my job is to transmit as much of that subculture to them as humanly possible. My peers have a similar goal of sharing knowledge of their interviewer’s subculture to their peers and teacher, albeit with a different subculture than mine. Overall, writing this essay helped enhance my writing by learning new concepts such as interviews and improving old concepts such as rhetorical situation and peer-reviewing.

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