Designated student uses website to take class to midterm or final samples from Model Assignments to review outstanding or impressive passages as models for upcoming assignments.

Since all three exams have the same three parts—Essay, Web Highlights, & Research Report (or topic proposal)—student should review at least one model assignment for each part.

The student is required only to find a passage or two for each part, before the class meeting, to use the class computer to find and highlight the passages, read them over with the class, and comment about why s/he chose the passage(s) and either what s/he learned from it or how s/he differs.

Other students will not have seen these passages, so discussion may be limited, but as the presentation proceeds, the presenter should ask simple, broad questions to involve the class:

Examples of discussion questions:

"Did you see what I saw? Did any other parts work for you?"

"What made this a good answer for you?" 

 "Did anyone see anything else worth commenting on?"

"If you were grading this passage, what kind of positive or negative criticism might you offer?"

The student presenter may lead discussion for a few minutes, but the instructor will take over eventually.

Examples from 2007 Student web highlights

Examples from 2006 Student Poetry web highlights

(These are models from earlier semesters. Written submissions of your presentation are no longer required and may differ in detail.)