ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

THE 4TH ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY
Tuesday, APRIL 16, 2013
3:00-5:00 pm
Mulcahy Gymnasium, Iona College

The roundtable discussion format is designed to highlight the dialogic nature of humanities knowledge and foster a collaborative discussion between students and faculty about the questions that matter most. Composed of three-four students and an equal number of responding faculty, the roundtable format will allow students to present a thesis with supporting textual evidence and logically derived, but also debatable, conclusions on the topic of their choice. The faculty member will respond specifically to the student’s claims, offering counter-evidence and perhaps a counter-thesis in order to encourage discussion and actualize the multi-disciplinary conversations that generate knowledge and method in the humanities.

Effective roundtable papers will be :

• Thesis driven
• Textually based
• Provocatively argued

Each paper submitted for consideration should be approximately 4-6 pages, or of a length that could easily be edited to the same page limits.

For discipline-specific advice in preparation for oral or poster presentation, please contact the following faculty coordinators: