Interviewee Speaking: Hi-- my name's Adam, I'm a freshman at Ohio State, and I'm a civil engineering major. 
Interviewer Speaking:-- Adam, would you share a story that gives some insight into your family's writing and reading practices?
Interviewee: Well-- at home, we always-- My mom and I would always read-- like bedtime stories, or we'd always read together and now that I'm older and I have younger siblings, I would always read stories to them. They would always come up and ask me to read books to them-- Least once a day and we'd go sit on the couch or sit on the bed and I'd read to them and they'd want me to read it over and over again, but, hey.
Interviewer Speaking: So how have your family's practices affected your own?
Interviewee Speaking: I really think the fact that we read so much at home-- kind of pushed me towards liking to read in today's society where so many people don't like to and how people, “Oh, I don't read, books, that's so boring, blah blah blah.” And it's really not. Like, if you read a good book, it's-- you have a great time.
Interviewer Speaking: Who generally read to you when you were younger?
Interviewee Speaking: ...Mostly my mom, a lot... Like I said, she'd always read me a bedtime story and spending a lot of time with her, she was usually the one that read to me. Sometimes my dad did, but... not so much.
Interviewer Speaking: What kinds of things did you read together?
Interviewee Speaking: ...We read a lot of picture books when I was younger and then when I started in first grade we had library, so... I'd always bring home books and we'd read them together and we'd talk about them. And that... kind of really started it.
Interviewer Speaking: What was your favorite book?
Interviewee Speaking: ...My favorite book that I can remember was "The Little Engine that Could." I used to read that book so much. It.. like.. I probably could've recited it by heart. Not anymore, but I probably could've.
Interviewer Speaking: Do you still keep a copy?
Interviewee Speaking: I don't have a copy. I think... my little sisters might have it if we do. It's probably somewhere in our basement.
Interviewer Speaking: Have you found that literature has changed since you were younger, now that you're reading to your little sisters?
Interviewee Speaking: ... Not... not really changed. I mean, content, kind of. Now they have, like, cell phones and computers that they can include whereas when I was younger they really didn't have that. So.. it's more... more technologically-advanced content I would say, if anything.
Interviewer Speaking: Well presuming we've been raised in the technological age, could you tell me a story about proposing your first email?
Interviewee Speaking: Well.. It was.. I was probably... fourth grade, I think? And... we had.. my step-dad had his office on the first floor, and he had his computers. And then we had a computer in our... computer in our basement for me and then eventually my little sisters. And... I remember I was on Yahoo and I was watching music videos and it told me, like, after so many it would tell me that I needed to get an account. So one day I went up and asked my step dad if I could and he did it with me. And... I was so excited that I had a Yahoo account. Completely regardless of the fact that I could email now. And so... I remember one day I was bored, it was over summer, and I just decided, "Oh hey, I'll try to email my mom." And so, I just sent her a short little email, no big deal, but... that's the first time I can remember.
Interviewer Speaking: Do you remember the content of your email?
Interviewee Speaking: ...Not exactly, but it was probably, like, a little message saying, "Hi," or "What's up? I can email now." and all about how excited I was and... just... just to send one.
Interviewer Speaking: Have you found that the style of your texting has changed? Does it affect the way that you write now?
Interviewee Speaking: ... My... the style of my texting has definitely gone through phases. But I wouldn't say that it's affected my writing, per say. 'Cause I don't really write that much, and when I do, it's like, because I have to for school, and so... when I'm doing that I'm conscious of, "Okay, I need to write this, it needs to looks this way, it needs to sound this way." So... I don't think that it's really affected my writing as much as it could.
Interviewer Speaking: 'Kay well, thank you very much for letting me interview you.