Tuesday, February 26, 2008

26.ii.08 Foundations of Verbal Communication

So, I'm waiting for You Tube to crank out Alanis Morissette's "Thank You" for my delectation while I grade the oral presentations and listening exercises, and I realized that I really missed a great opportunity here.

Now, I'm sure that students in FVC102.F3 will not be terribly disappointed that I neglected to add this component to the oral presentations, but in the future I will certainly want to:

Ensure that a bibliography of sources is included with the presentation.

Where did you folks get your information? Sure, it may be "common knowledge", which generally speaking does not require citation, but we're practicing here, and should take every possible opportunity to do so. And maybe, just maybe, in the process misattributions (like -- and not to pick on any one person, but just to give an example -- lines 40-53 of Twelfth Night II.3 presented as a sonnet) would not occur, or could be checked much more efficiently (I spent a quarter of an hour tracking that one down. If I charged the regular "professorial rate" that would be, let's see... $45?).

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