1. Background research brief
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
- Topic / Area
- One sentence stating the focus
- 3–5 keywords
- Research question / Problem
- 1–2 sentences clearly stating the core question or hypothesis
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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)