Paper Discussion

Along with your team members, you are expected to give presentations in class. These student-led classes start from Week 4. Each presentation should consist of the following two parts.

Class-Prep Paper Discussion

The first part of your presentation is discussing class-prep papers. In order to do this, you are expected to read the class-prep papers up to the third pass described in How to Read a Paper. This will give you deeper understanding of the papers. The instructor will provide you with a set of questions, derived from student summaries, to discuss in class. You are expected to prepare your own answers for those questions, and discuss the questions and answers in class.

Paper Presentation

The second part of your presentation is presenting additional papers. If you look at the schedule, there are additional papers that are not part of the class-prep paper list for each week. You are expected to explain those additional papers to class by preparing a presentation. Since other students do not read those papers, your goal is to explain the papers as clearly as possible. This cannot be rushed---it requires careful reading (i.e., read the papers well in advance) and thinking about your presentation strategies that can maximize clarity. You need to run it among your team a few times to see if everything's clear. You might find this talk useful.

Grading

Each part is 5% toward the overall semester final grade.