Lab Report: Dr. Chander & Brown Romantics

Each visitor's discussion is linked to our Overarching Research Question. To that end, with each visitor, we need to think about their ideas and how those ideas play into the reinforcement or resistance narrative that we're investigating. Before each visitor's day approaches, I'll ask you to think about what ideas you would like to glean from the conversation -- similar to establishing a hypothesis before an experiment. This will, in turn, lead to the construction of your Lab Report for each of these visitors. 

For us, a Lab Report  is a new style of writing that entails providing specific details in a descriptive format. The Lab Report allows us to keep notes about a particular event as the start to broadening our understanding of a particular concept. This is the starting point for other work in the semester. It does double duty of allowing you to write in a short blurb with initial thoughts. 

Lab Reports are typically assigned to enable you to:

• Conduct scientific research.
• Formulate a hypothesis(es) about a particular stimulus, event, and/or behaviour.
• Review relevant literature to justify your hypothesis.
• Allow someone to replicate your study by providing precise details.
• Apply statistics to test your hypothesis.
• Explore theoretical explanations.
• Evaluate research objectively and methodically.
• Communicate concisely (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and precisely.

On March 21, Professor Manu Chander visited our class session to discuss this concept of "Brown Romantics," both in theory and a literary historical context. The readings included his work as well as reference to foundational definitions and critiques of this concept.

We're going to adapt the Lab Report format in order to describe, assess, evaluate, and then discuss each visitor's discussion. Prior to the visitor's discussion day:

1. Choose 1 assigned reading for his visit to discuss in-depth for this Lab Report. 
2. Provide a quote or two from this reading to orient your investigation of the concept. 
3. Create a list of 3 engaging questions about this reading to ask of the visitor.
4. Create a list of what you expect to learn from this visitor - be specific (beyond learning about "Brown Romantics")
5. Create a list of how this particular visitor's expertise may help with our Overarching Research Question and/or The Bengal Annual or the The Oriental Annual.

In your Lab Report, include the following information: 

1. Provide responses to the above in the same enumerated structure (cut/paste - this is the easy part). 
2. Describe briefly the information provided during the visitor's discussion (synthesize this into 200 words or less using complete sentences). 
3. Describe briefly any concepts that were defined during the visitor's discussion. 
4. How did the visitor meet your expectations for what you would learn?
5. How did this visitor's discussion help with our Overarching Research Question and/or The Bengal Annual or the The Oriental Annual?

See my comments on your previous Lab Report to provide more depth to some of your responses. 

To make it easier for everyone to read all the reports on a single screen, cut/paste your report directly into the text box. (Don't attach the document.)