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| Requirements |
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| Daily Seminar Presentations |
| Woody Allen has been quoted as saying that "eighty percent of success is showing up." He intended the phrase to mean that if you don't actually try to do something (write a book, compose a song, etc.), then your chances of success are nil. For this seminar, "showing up" includes being prepared to participate. |
| You will be working in teams and one of the ways that teams succeed by learning how to share responsibilities. Develop a plan for how your team will be presenting its research to the seminar. Plan your presentation before you arrive. Share the responsibilities of presenting the material. (You do not get extra points for presenting all the material by yourself.) Each of the members of a team are to present material every seminar meeting when presentations are scheduled (which is most meetings). |
Team One: Meczywor, Kim, Lipton, & Bakerman
Team Two: Weigel, Green, Borkowski, & Siu
Team Three: Samors, Ross, Oundjian, & Pryzsinda
Team Four: Aleman, Kastner, & Zabludoff |
| Among those who have narrated the story of The Beatles, members of the band and their corporation (Apple Corps) have created The Beatles Anthology (1995) as a way to present their version of the story. This collaborative autobiographical documentary takes the model of Ken Burns' The Civil War (1990) and breaks the story up into multiple episodes, each containing versions of the story as told by different participants. We will be watching episodes from The Beatles Anthology evey other week and your presentations should compare how your sources are similar to and different from each other, as well as how they compare to the Anthology. Do the stories these authors tell compare well? Do they differ on the information they convey and in their interpretation of the information? |
| I will be making notes on each presentation and will ultimately give each of you a personal grade based both on your team's presentation and on your individual contribution. Be prepared to engage in discussions with the seminar about what you find. |
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| Biweekly Essays |
| You will have three short essays (450-550 words) that you will submit every other week for the first part of the semester. Write each essay as though it were a regular research paper, only short. Have a clear thesis and use at least two (if not three) sources to make your point. Cite these sources in your text using the MLA in-text parenthetical citation model and include a bibliography. (NB: I will not include the bibliography in your word count.) See here for a sample paper written in a previous semester, although not with the same theme as this seminar. |
| You will submit your papers as email attachments to gthompso@skidmore.edu on the Saturdays indicated on the schedule. |
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| Paper Abstract, Draft, Presentation, and Submission |
| Each student will choose a focused research project in consultation with the instructor. Take a Beatles story and examine it through the lenses of a number of different sources. Evaluate the sources and the information they contain. |
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The topic may be biographical, cultural, and/or musical. |
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Paper abstract and bibliography. 4 October 2014. Describe the topic you have chosen for your essay and the sources that you think tell different versions of the story. As with the short essays, this version should be around 500 words. |
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Paper draft. 25 November 2014. Your presentation-ready paper with attached bibliography. |
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Paper presentation. You will read a written version of you research paper. You will have no longer than 20 minutes. |
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Paper submission. The final written version of your research paper will be a minimum of 2,000 words, including your bibliography, discography, and videography. Inclusion of notations will be taken into consideration. Submit papers electronically as an attachment by 9:00 PM, 17 December 2014. |
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| Grades |
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| Seminar presentations and participation |
60% |
| Biweekly essays |
15% |
| Paper abstract |
5% |
| Paper draft |
5% |
| Paper presentation |
5% |
| Paper submission |
10% |
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| http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/music/courses/mu363-2014/363-14-Reqs.html | Edited
11-Sep-2014 |