Unless otherwise stated, each week I expect each class participant to read each
paper. (Where "participant" includes graduate students as well as post-doctoral
researchers).
The week before I will designate some papers as "general" and some as "in-depth."
For the general papers everyone should come to class prepared to discuss the paper and to answer several questions including:
1. Are these important?
2. Why are they cited as much as they are? If too new to be cited, do you expect them to be well-cited or ignored?
3. Do they relate to our research? Should our research and papers take these papers into account?
For each of the other papers, each week I will ask 1-2 class participants to prepare to lead the discussion of each paper -- this presentation should be well-organized and well presented. It may include discussion of papers cited or not cited by the paper under discussion. It may include points made by other papers that we have or will read this semester.
All participants should be prepared to dissect various points of each paper. In addition, all participants should be prepared to participate in a summary discussion of the three questions posed (above) for the general papers.