I’ve gotten a couple of questions about this so far, so I think I wasn’t completely clear in class. But the extra credit writeups of talks you might have attended at the BUCLD are not due tomorrow, but rather are due a week from tomorrow, on November 13.

The idea is this: Write about a page (if it’s single-spaced, “most of a page” is also ok) about each of up to two talks you went to, addressing what you understood to be the point, the argument, the evidence, and so forth. If you didn’t understand everything, fabulous, write what you think you understood and/or comment on what wasn’t clear. (Don’t just copy bits of the handout, though..)

This will substitute in for (or boost) your second lowest homework grade (the lowest one having been dropped anyway), if you do two (if you do one, it will be somehow pro-rated). Also, if you didn’t go to the conference, you will have another opportunity to get this same extra credit later, as well.