Group Project

For the academic article group projects, you will be split into one of four groups based on your last name. On Thursday, you will come to class having read the article assigned to your group (all are accessible via JSTOR) and, together, your group will 1. summarize the article and 2. evaluate the article. For the purposes of this assignment (unlike a regular paper!) I want you to spend more time on the summary.

Your presentation should give your classmates and I a strong understanding of the article's content. I do not have a time limit on how long you must present, nor do I want to specify how you present the content and evaluation. You can have each member discuss a portion of the article or each member can discuss one theme or issue. Or you can take another approach entirely.

Your classmates and I will then ask your group questions on the basis of your presentation, so be able to defend and explain both your summary and your evaluation. I will be circulating on Thursday to help if needed.

This assignment is a response to the request for more group work and more time working on reading comprehension!

Group 1
Article: Nesmith, Tom. "Seeing Archives: Postmodernism and the Changing Intellectual Place of the Archives." The American Archivist 65.1 (Spring/Summer 2002): 24-41.
Members: Debora, Janessa, Nathanie, Natalie
Presents: Tuesday, April 10

Group 2
Article: Ferreira-Buckley, Linda. "Rescuing the Archives from Foucault." College English 61.5 (May 1999): 577-583.
Members: Melissa, Hassan, Omair, Haoyu
Presents: Tuesday, April 10

Group 3
Article: Shetty, Sandhya and Elizabeth Jane Bellamy. "Postcolonialism's Archive Fever." Diacritics 23.1 (Spring 200): 25-48. *note this review is predicated on previous readings we've done on Archive Fever and the "Rani of Sirmur"
Members: Osvaldo, Eileen, Megan, Niyeti
Presents: Thursday, April 12

Group 4
Article: Lubar, Steven. "Information Culture and the Archival Record." The American Archivist 62.1 (Spring 1999): 10-22.
Members: Julian, Camden, Shihao, June
Presents: Thursday, April 12