Description of Assignments

Assignments

*K = contract

Annotated bibliography 10%

Progress Report (oral presentation) 10%

Proposal (w/ K*) 20%

Analytical Report (w/ K*) 20%

Analytical report (oral presentation) 20%

Participation 20%

Proposal

As a collaborative group, you will research and develop a plan for effective group collaboration. This will help you understand the benefits and detriments of collaboration for your own work, but it will also help students in other classes with their work and form a basis for your further analytical study later in the course.

Based on your work, you will create and submit a proposal of your plan for effective collaboration to groups of students in one of my other classes. To help prepare materials to incorporate into your work and provide information that will be helpful to the class as a whole, as a part of the project you will provide individual annotated bibliographies of 10 sources each. (Due Sept 11).
I will post these bibliographies on the Web for everyone in the class to use.

To specify your duties for the project, you will create a contract among your group members. Each of you will sign and submit the contract to me with a copy of your proposal. Be sure that you contract for duties of equal difficulty that consume roughly the same amount of time.

You must use memo format for your proposals. (Proposal and K due Oct 2.)

Progress Report

You will provide an oral progress report of the work that you are undertaking on your analysis projects. You will use the same elements necessary for coverage in written progress reports, but deliver them in an oral report. Your report should be clear, well structured, comprehensive, and persuade your listeners that you are making good progress with your analytical work and that you will accomplish the goals you set out for your reports. (Due Oct 30.)

Analytical Report

Your collaborative group will analyze the efficacy of your proposal plans as they are used, misused, or not at al used by the collaborative groups who received them. You will choose a methodology for testing your plans, apply it, collect results, analyze the results, then make conclusions based on the analysis. (To do this, you will need to interact with the students in the collaborative group using your plan.)

To specify your duties for the project, you will create a contract among your group members. Each of you will sign and submit the contract to me with a copy of your proposal. Be sure that you contract for duties of equal difficulty that consume roughly the same amount of time.

You must use analytical report format to communicate your results. (Report and K due Nov 27.)

Oral Report on Analytical Report

You will provide an oral report on the work that you completed in your analysis projects. You will explain the work you did in your part of the project, describe what part of the work succeeded and what did not, and describe the new knowledge that you developed by working through your project. Your report should be clear, well structured, and comprehensive. (Due Nov 27.)