Summary of Interviews and Sources

Summary of Interviews

I interviewed two experts from the field of Health and Human Performance, Susan Peacock and Mike Jett. Susan Peacock was the first person I interviewed. She earned a MEd with a focus in psychology and a MS in nutritional sciences. Her job is being a lecturer and teacher. She’s my Healthy Lifestyles teacher. Writing has a major impact on her job. She is a contributing author in an ACSM fitness manual, writes emails daily, and other kinds less frequently. The main genre of her writings is expository and main audience is business partners. Most of her writing experience came from high school, not college. Although her job doesn’t require much writing, it’s still needed and very important.

The second person I interviewed was Mike Jett. He has an Md in Exercise Physiology and a BA in History. He co-owns a fitness business and is a full-time faculty instructor here at UofL. Writing is also a very important aspect of his job. He writes weekly newsletters for his fitness business, proposals every few months, and emails daily. He also posts a modified version of his weekly newsletter on a Health/Fitness Blog hosted on the Courier Journal website. He says he write informatively and sometimes adds comedy for entertainment purposes. His audience is people interested in health, nutrition, fitness, and exercise science students. He says writing in college helped him become a better writer for his job, and he writes about an hour a day.

The interviews helped me get a new perspective of how experts in the field I’m pursuing write. I didn't know that those in the Health and Human Performance field wrote daily, but now I know they do. Depending on the job in the field, you can write newsletters, proposals, emails, and many more informational papers.

Analysis of Sources

From a nonacademic source I found, people who are in athletic training, which is a job in the field of Health and Human Performance, use writing and it’s a very important part of their jobs. Athletic trainers design work outs for athletes and record the progress. They also record the progress of the rehabilitation process of injured athletes. They must also fill out paper work and write emails. Another source talked about personal trainers. Their job is similar to athletic trainers, but they’re more focused on fitness and weight loss for their clients instead of injury prevention and treatment. They write articles in fitness magazines and make dietary plans for clients. Some people in this field can become physical education teachers and health educators. To do this they should know how to write and communicate with their class, and also write emails. There's also many more careers in this field that may have to do other types of writing.