{"id":1574,"date":"2025-06-06T15:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:44:40","slug":"it-doesnt-have-to-be-a-research-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/it-doesnt-have-to-be-a-research-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"It doesn’t have to be a research paper!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a big fan of ending undergraduate (or mixed undergrad\/grad) classes with a research paper that is only read by me. So, in my ‘English Grammar in Use’ class, we end with a poster symposium instead, which doesn’t only give students the opportunity to learn to present their research in a different format (an opportunity most students really enjoy and consider relevant for their future careers, be they in academia or not), it is also a collaborative event — from reserving a suitable room, over organizing poster easels and printing flyers, to inviting fellow students and faculty and providing peer feedback on other students’ posters. I am grateful to my colleagues and PhD students who came to the symposium and asked students questions about the posters, just as one would do at a conference. Students did a fantastic job at explaining their research design and their findings. (The only drawback was that students who presented missed out on their peers’ projects — I need to build in some rotation next time.)<\/p>\n

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