Each groups should submit the following to prepare your background-research presentation and to seed your final presentation/paper. Please aim to have a working draft ready for your group check-in on October 9th. After the group meeting, the final version of the draft should be submitted by October 10th (Friday). This is not a graded assignment.

Things to include

  1. Topic / Area
    • One sentence stating the focus
    • 3–5 keywords
  2. Research question / Problem
    • 1–2 sentences clearly stating the core question or hypothesis
  3. Mini annotated bibliography (3–5 papers) — for each paper include:

    • Full citation (consistent style)
    • 1-sentence contribution (key finding/idea)
    • Method/Data (e.g., corpus, model, experiment)
    • Relevance (why it matters for your group project)