Remember that overheads or handouts are essential in providing historical or biographical background. You may generate a Journal in paper and paint format, or electronically. Bona fide graduate-school behavior is distinguished in at least four ways. Students read weekly assignments on time, completely, to the last page, and they come to the seminar with serious response and a willingness to discuss. The work is done for its own sake.
Students assume that open and equitable discussion and critique is the soul of a graduate seminar.
Students don't put the burden on the teacher or on other students to originate or maintain discussion. They themselves take on the responsibility to keep some seminar members from dominating others, and they do it by offering their share of talk. I will not accept late assignments unless you have made previous arrangements. Introduction to the course. Arundhati Roy pp.