English 2906
Poster Presentation Guidelines
Due Dates:
Dry run on 1 December 2025. Outside guests visit our posters on 3 December 2025.
Objective:
Showcase an element of literature or language and argue for its usefulness as a tool in interpreting a text and teaching it to students.
Minimum Requirements:
One poster with a clearly identified literary or linguistic element as its focus.
At least four pages or sections with headings:
A clear definition of the literary or linguistic element.
At least one example of it from literary works of your choosing with an explanation of how it contributes to the work's overall meaning.
Potential problems or challenges associated with the use or understanding of this element.
An MLA-formatted list of works (three works minimum) that assisted your group when creating this poster.
Use effective graphic elements to frame and supplement your claims.
Groups:
You may complete this task individually or in a larger group. Divide the task up between group members as appropriate.
Procedure:
Choose one an element of literature or language that you have encountered in this semester's class. You may consult M. A. R. Habib's Literary Criticism for examples of these elements. Find a literary work in which this element is present, and incorporate a quotation from that into your poster.
On your own, or in collaboration with your group members, design a visually engaging poster presentation that covers the above subtopics. Please do not delegate design-work to generative AIs.
Pay some attention to the visual organization of information. Perhaps bullet-points will be a good option. Include at least one image or other graphical element in this poster presentation.
Have the poster ready for the dry run in class on Monday, 1 December 2025, and then, with perhaps a few modifications, for our guests on Wednesday, 3 December 2025. During a poster session, presenters stand in front of their poster and respond to question from people walking by.
Grading standards:
Presentations will receive A-F grades based on the following criteria:
Adherence to topic guidelines.
Clarity of the argument about the literary or linguistic element and creative ways to apply it to our lives beyond the literature class.
Effective use of examples.