This document provides an agenda and information for an academic interactions class. It discusses returning tests, preparing for group presentations which will take place later in the week, how to give credit to sources, and examples of effective group presentations. Guidelines are given for writing presentation contracts with group members, referring to outside information and sources during presentations, and common citation formats. Students are also assigned homework of bringing a group contract to the next class and completing an interview transcription analysis.

1. ACADEMIC INTERACTIONS
Spring 2015
IECP
Nikki Mattson

2. AGENDA
 Return tests
 Group Presentation Preparation + Contract Writing
 Giving credit to sources+ work cited
 Group Presentation examples + analysis

3. RETURN TESTS

4. SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK
 Monday = Introduce group presentation project
 Tuesday = Continue to prepare for group
presentation project
 Wednesday = Class time to work with your group
on your presentation
 Thursday = Class cancelled so you may meet with
your group and practice/record your presentation.

5. DISCUSSION
 2. How can you decide who will do the different
parts of your presentation?
 3. How can you connect the different sections of
your presentation?

6. DISCUSSION
 4. What are some tips that you have for
organizing and giving effective group
presentations?
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5.

7. DISCUSSION
 . What are some group roles that might be helpful
for organizing group work? (leader, encourager,
time keeper, etc.)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

8. DISCUSSION
 2. What are some group behaviors that might be
helpful for accomplishing a task?
1.
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5.

9. CONTRACT WRITING
 Create a contract with your group members that will
guide how you interact with each other and
complete tasks. Think about what expectations you
have for each member.

10. REFERENCES IN SPEECHES
 How do you refer to outside/borrowed information during
a presentation?

11. REFERENCES IN SPEECHES
Common reference formats:
1. Date + format of evidence + author’s name + evidence/quote
 In a 1986 speech, John Polayni said, “Human dignity is better
served by embracing knowledge.”
2. Author’s name + position/job title+ date +evidence/quote
 Stuart Kauffman, author of the book Investigations, which was
published in 2010, wrote that creating new inventions is still
very important in the modern world.
3. According to + date+ format of evidence + title + author + fact/statistic.
 According to a 2010 book entitled Investigations, by Stuart
Kauffman, roughly 18,000 new inventions are developed every
day.
Hint* If there are more than two authors, say “author 1 et al.” (According to Polayni et
al…)

12. HANDOUT - PRACTICE

13. REFERENCES SLIDE
 Interview Reference, MLA Style
 Structure:
 Interviewee last name, first name. “Title.”
Personal Interview by interviewer firstname
lastname. Day Month Year.
 Example:
 Gianico, Jackie. “Academic Life at Penn State.”
Personal interview by Nikki Mattson. 13 March
2015.

14. REFERENCES SLIDE
 Class Observation Reference
 Structure:
 Last name, first name of professor. “Title or Subject of
Lecture.” Course Title. College Name. Location.
Day Month Year. Lecture, Discussion,
Presentation, or Notes.
 Example:
 Smith, Mary. “Jane Austen and Psychoanalytic
Theory.” Introduction to Literary Criticism.
Pennsylvania State University. University Park,
PA. 13 March 2015. Lecture.

15. REFERENCES - HANDOUT

16. GROUP PRESENTATION EXAMPLE
 Watch the video and take notes on:
 1) organizational structure (parts of the
presentation)
 2) positive aspects
 3) negative aspects

17. EXAMPLE 1
 Example 1

18. EXAMPLE 2
 https://psu.app.box.com/files/0/f/2374989551/1/f_22
829911969

19. HW
 Bring your Group Contract to class tomorrow
 PSU Interview, transcript, and transcript analysis
DUE 3/27 by midnight
 Tutoring and Conversation Partnership recording
and reflection due (3/29) (Meeting 5)