We are in the home stretch of the semester! Most of your work this week is simply about moving forward on all your final assignments. The end is in sight!
–Office Hours: I will be holding my regular office hours on Monday, November 30th at 12:30pm. Feel free to stop by if you want to discuss any aspect of your final project or anything else that is on your mind.
–Resource Guides: As you know, your research guides are due on Monday, November 30th. Please review the instructions for the project and be sure you have included all the required parts, identified the author of each RefAnnBib entry by including his/her initials in parentheses at the end of the entry, and compiled all the entries into one alphabetically organized bibliography. If you do NOT have your completed Resource Guide ready to submit, you need to reach out to me to discuss a plan for getting the work done.
–Symposium Sessions: See my post from last week if you need a reminder about when your group is scheduled to share its work and about what forms your Symposium Session might take. You will have some time with your group on Wednesday during our Zoom. At that session, I will expect each group to be ready to share with me orally its plan for the session, so be prepared. Our sessions will take place on Monday, December 7th and Wednesday, December 9th at 12:30pm. Both sessions are mandatory for all students.
–Op-Ed Essays:. Please read carefully the separate post that describes this assignment in detail. Last week I asked you to share with me your idea for the Op-Ed. (This means what topic are you addressing and what argument are you making.) If I haven’t yet seen your proposed idea for the Op-Ed, please get it to me immediately. You can either share your thoughts in a Google Doc or send me an email explaining what you are thinking about. In class on Wednesday, you will be asked to share your idea. Give some thought to how you can express your point clearly and succinctly. Drafts of the Op-Ed Essay are due on Friday, December 4th. Please upload your draft to our shared Google Doc folder, and give it a title whose format is: YOUR NAME /OP-ED DRAFT
–Peer Review: We will be going through a peer review process for the Op-Ed assignment. Please check the blog on Friday for instructions about the peer review process. Remember that, if you are slow to review your peer’s draft, you are effectively delaying his/her progress on the assignment. Please be sure that you complete your peer review within the time framework that is assigned.
