Assigned: Monday, March 3
Due: Monday, March 17

Options 1 and 2 are intended to give you additional practice summarizing complex material:

Option 1. Find a complicated graphic from your major that you think the rest of us will not understand. Write a brief analysis of the graphic and then explain how you learned to read it.

Option 2: Find a scholarly article whose topic you think will interest many of us but that may need translation and additional background information. Read the article and write an approximately one-page (double-spaced) summary and discussion of it for a general audience. It's fine to use articles from another class or from your white paper, as long as you haven't already written the summary.  

Option 3: PowerPoint position paper Look further into PowerPoint and its positives and negatives. Decide where you stand and use memo format to write an informative or persuasive discussion of your position. You may want to respond to either one of the following questions. "After researching PowerPoint, do you think it is an effective way to give presentations?" (persuasive option) "PowerPoint is a widely used presentation aid. What does research show about the positive and negative uses of the program?"

Option 4: Propose a new monthly assignment (or in-class activity)