CSCI 431 Programming Languages

Team Report: Process, Structure and Guidelines

Here is the process that we will be following for making the team reports:

• Review briefly each of the papers and decide which one interests you the most.
• In class, join the team.
• Read the paper, several times.
• Reflect on what the paper is all about.
• Get together with your team mates and discuss how you want to handle the presentation.
• The presentation should assume that the audience (our class) has read the paper, but not as carefully or as many times as you have.
• Your job in the presentation is to discuss the paper: present a short summary, discuss what was said in the paper, what could have been said, whether you agree or not with the paper.
• The papers are not current, what has happened since the paper was written?
• Everyone on the team should have an active role and have something to contribute. (For example, one person may be the moderator, another may disagree with the point of view taken by the paper).
• Consider handouts, PowerPoint presentation, Web Sites, other papers, ... whatever you find effective in your reflecting and presenting.
• Engage the rest of the class in the discussion.
• End your presentation with a short quiz that covers the most important points. It is important that you attempt to make the the quiz be fair and reflective of the material covered during the discussion.
• Have the students in the audience exchange quizzes and grade them. Go over the answers to the quiz.
• Collect and turn in the quizzes to your instructor. Remember, only the team gets a grade for this exercise. The aptness and results of the quiz is a grading criteria.
• The time budget for this is 40 minutes.
• As an individual effort, each student on the report team is to turn in a one-page reflection on the reading.
  A "one pager" (one page reflection) is a synthesis of the information in the assigned reading. This is not a summary but a "combination of ideas to form a new whole". Your one-pager is to discuss what you understand, what you were/are struggling with, and any "ah ha" moments you had. Develop a substantive title for your one-pager.
  
• Have fun.