Conduct a 20-minute interview (in which the interviewee does almost all of the speaking) about the topic(s) of your choice.
Make at least one copy of your tape recording (the library has dubbing facilities). Keep your master copy in a safe place, and do all your work from the dubbed copy.
Transcribe the entire interview in "standard" written American English. Discuss any problems you had doing so. (Recording problems, simultaneous speech, incomplete sentences & ideas, etc.)
With every unit we cover in class, you will be given questions to answer about your subject. For instance, when we cover phonetics, you will be asked to do a narrow transcription of a one-minute chunk of the interview and to discuss any speech errors (false starts or slips of the tongue). This page will be updated as the questions related to each unit are handed out.