Electronic Writing & Publishing

Seminar Presentation:

Email Due: 9 am 5/13/09

You will choose, with my approval, one class “day” where you will lead the class discussion and activities. You will be responsible for presenting the topic, leading the discussion, and leading any activities that you think are necessary. Think of this as your chance to teach a graduate class for the day.  You are responsible for introducing the topic to the class and initiating discussion. Prepare a 1-2 page handout or something similar for each seminar participant. You will not have to do a reading response for this day (this does not count towards the three you may miss), but you may want to do further research on the topic of the day. You will also need to select ~20 pages of additional readings (articles, chapters, and so on. This is ~one chapter or article) for your seminar presentation day beyond what I have already assigned and provide print or electronic copies of these reading to the class at least four days  in advance of your presentation. I suggest you choose a day based on your own interests and project directions. Since this a Maymester class, you will be given half the class (1:00—1:15) for your seminar presentation (there may be some days where we have two seminar presentations). Thus, you do not need to use the full class time, only half of it. On days were there are two the three of us will discuss the division of readings.

You are welcome to select any of the class days with an asterisk after the topic. Please send me a short email with your first and second choice of class days and your first and second choice of topics (being specific is good) and a brief discussion (your reasoning) of why you are interested in these topic choices by 9 am 5/13/09. If the day has a few topics and you are particularly interested in one topic, please note this in the email. I will select class leaders based on your reasoning, the order of emails, and the logical flow of topics.