Some possible Report Topics
Reports
Please choose a report topic and schedule a date to deliver the report in consultation with me as soon as possible. Your report (Report Schedule) should last precisely 12 mins. (time will be allowed for questions and discussion afterwards). You must provide your audience with a carefully organized Outline of your presentation, which includes a Bibliography. Shortly after delivering the presentation, please see me about developing a paper thesis.
NOTA BENE:
(1) Your report is precisely 12 mins.; it must be well researched, carefully organized, analytical and substantive (time will be allowed for questions & discussion afterwards).
(2) Provide your audience with a carefully organized electronic Outline (i.e. what you will show your audience on the screen as you present) of your presentation that includes a relevant Bibliography; I’ll help you get started with the bibliography, but you must also search for this yourself using the course Bibliography and relevant search engines and databases listed on the Links page).
(3) I will work closely with you in preparing the Outline, and so I need to see a first draft of this at least 48 hours before the date of your report); please send this and all subsequent versions of this in the format in which you will present (e.g. PowerPoint).
(4) I need the final version of your report outline at least 12 hours before its delivery so that it can be posted to the course website;
(5) Provide translations of Greek and Latin texts on your Outline—these must be your own (you do not need to provide translations for Latin texts we have read in this class). Avoid unnecessarily long block quotes.
Examples of our course's required bibliographic formatting (adapted from the American Journal of Philology)
Journal:
O’Gorman, E. 1993. “No Place Like Rome: Identity and Difference in the Germania of Tacitus.” Ramus 22: 135-54.
Book:
Ross, D. O., Jr. 1987. Virgil’s Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Chapter in a book:
Franko, G. 2001. “Plautus and Roman New Comedy.” In Greek and Roman Comedy, ed. S. O’Bryhim, 147-239. Austin: University of Texas Press.