An Interviewing Rhetoric

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An Interviewing Rhetoric, by Thomas J. Roach, blends formal and informal interviewing applications while staying firmly grounded in classical rhetorical theory. Like classical rhetorics, it enables students to put theory into practice.

• The practical need for interviewing theory and skills are many:
• College students wanting interview experience to perform well in job interviews.
•  Business leaders in human relations and management building productive work groups.
•  Journalists and pubic relations professionals gathering information and assessing public opinion.
• Marketing and social science researchers finding patterns of human behavior.

Highlights

• The first four chapters discuss theory and skills common to almost all types of interviews. 
• Chapters five and six are dedicated to journalistic interviews, covering both the journalist's and the news source's perspective.
• Chapters seven and eight cover the behavior interview.  In these chapters, the author uses the employment interview as a model; he provides comprehensive coverage of both the hiring and the job search processes.
• The last two chapters are devoted to the survey interview.