Proposal Day Audience Guide (what to do when you are not presenting your own proposal)

Take advantage of this opportunity to help your colleagues by taking good notes and thinking creatively on their behalf.  Nobody can see all of any of these projects' lines of investigation.  Help us all to see better and to think better about what we see.

1)  During the presentation, listen and look carefully for the main parts of a good proposal:

• a bibliographic survey of previous research (do you know of something useful they do not list?);

• the introduction of what is important about the research topic and what opportunities for researching it the group has initially determined (do you see other interests in the topic and/or additional ways to research it?);

• the methodology of the research (do you see ways to improve their methods or additional ways to make use of the data?);

• and the explanation of how this research can help future 221 students, Goucher tutors, and Goucher students and teachers (do you see more ways this research can be turned to good use?).

2)  Remember that we want to build group morale here.  After the presentation, give them positive feedback first.  Warn them about potential problems only when all the positive comments are done.