Your handout, with enough copies for each member of the class, is due the class period before your presentation so that we may study it and be prepared. If you want me to have the copies made, then your handout is due two class periods before your presentation. I will not grade you on how slick your speaking style is in either of your oral presentations, but I will reward a good handout that is intelligently structured with intelligent information. Document the sources of your handout at the end. By the middle of the term, we will have a class full of experts on all the tiny, nagging difficulties people have with writing.
Nobody has to take on the whole language, but everybody has to make a little progress.
Before the end of the term, your LOCs presentation is due as an html web document that you will upload to Condor and make available to the university community. Instruction in the web and in html will begin immediately after midterm. I know that the requirement that you contribute to the newsgroup on Tigger may be a hassle for some of you, but being able to take part in electronic discourse on the job or in graduate school is getting more and more important. You need to be able to control your tone and estimate people's status and power without the usual cues, and the only way to get good at it is to get over your mistakes while in relatively harmless circumstances. You must make 2 postings a week in the newsgroup Writing.