Present your research and get feedback on your presentation.
Conclude our discussions of academic honesty.
Remember to talk with me about revising your first or second essay.
Consider attending the following campus event(s). For "short assignment" credit, email me a one-paragraph report giving your reaction to the event.
Visit the exhibit "Letters to the North Pole," curated by Chris Farstad '09, in the Burling Print Room. The Print Room is in the basement of Burling Library and is open 1 - 5 p.m. There will be a gallery reception at 4:15 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5.
Hear Professor David Campbell speak on "The Relationship between HIV, Race, and Mining in South Africa" at 4:15 on Tuesday, December 2 in ARH 302. This talk is part of Grinnellians for Global Health (G4GH)'s HIV/AIDS Awareness Week.
Learn about student statistics projects at the Statistics Poster Session, Thursday, Dec. 4, 11 a.m. - noon, in the Noyce Elbow.
Hear Professor Eric Carter speak about shrimp farming in Ecuador on Friday, Dec. 5, at 2:15 p.m. in ARH 102. This talk is part of the seminar on "Environmental Challenges and Responses," which you can take for one credit in the spring semester.
See the SGA film Wall-E at the Harris Center Cinema this weekend. (It's totally about technology and place.)
Hear the Collegium Musicum perform "The Road to Compostela - Music for a Medieval Pilgrimage," directed by Professor Phillip Cave, on Friday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Sebring-Lewis Hall (Bucksbaum).
Hear Nathanial Gailey-Schiltz`09 present his MAP research on the Japanese Shamisen (a musical instrument) on Monday, Dec. 8, at 4:15 p.m. in Bucksbaum 101.
Hear student presentations about local food by Hart Ford-Hodges, Neal Wepking, Ami Freeberg & Nathan Pavlovic on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 4:15 p.m. in the Forum South Lounge.
Go to the sleep study break on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 9 p.m. in the Lazier 3rd Lounge. (Sleep is good for you... and is sometimes prevented by technology.)
Does anyone have any remaining events this semester that they would like to invite their classmates to?
Class will be cancelled to make time for presentation rehearsals.
Each student will give a practice run-through of their presentation. I will pass around a sign-up sheet for appointments. Record the time and date of your appointment below.
My practice session is at ___________________(time) on _________________________________ (date).
We will take two days of class for students to present their research from "anatomy of a research paper." See the assignment for more details.
Food will be available both days at 7:50 a.m. Presentations will start at 8:15 sharp. You must be in class at 8:15 on both days, regardless of whether you are giving a presentation, or you will lose 5 points from your presentation grade.
On the day you are not presenting, you will give feedback on your classmates' presentations.
I will pass around a sign-up sheet for presentations. Record the time and date of your presentation below.
I will be giving presentation number ___________ on _____________________________________(date).
Thursday, December 11, is our very last class! We will be reflecting on what we learned this semester.
It is very important that you come to class. You will have the opportunity to fill out the end-of-Tutorial evaluation form, which lets you provide feedback on how effective this Tutorial was for helping you learn academic skills. Student feedback is important not only to evaluating faculty, but also for giving us ideas about how our classes could be improved. Because I am teaching Tutorial for the first time this semester, I am especially interested in learning from your feedback.
To prepare for class, please do the following:
Bring your Academic Honesty Pamplet to class. If you are not yet prepared to sign the statement on p. 37, please bring your questions to class (or meet me in office hours).
Reflect on what you've learned this semester and, in particular, what you've learned in the Tutorial. (No need to write anything beforehand---just come prepared to talk and write about it.)
Your final paper, due during finals week, will be a short essay reflecting on academic skills you have developed this semester. I will hand out this assignment by Dec. 9 at the latest.
You may also turn in revisions of your first three papers during finals week. Think about which of your first three papers you would like to revise.
Janet Davis (davisjan@cs.grinnell.edu)
Created November 24, 2008