Instructions for Readings

Each time that we will discuss a paper together in class, you will be assigned to read that paper in advance. Say, for example, that on Wednesday we are going to discuss the paper On Spectral Clustering: Analysis and an Algorithm by Ng, Jordan, and Weiss.

  1. First, at the end of the previous class meeting (Monday, in our example), I will assign the reading:
  2. In the following day or so, you will meet with your group to read the paper together:
  3. Before noon on the day of the in-class discussion (again, Wednesday, in our example), your group will write a response to the paper and post it on Moodle:

    After the main response is posted by one member of the group, the other members of the group will just post something like “I'm also a member of that group”, so they can read all the other writeups.

  4. At the beginning of class on the day of the discussion (Wednesday, in our example), you will turn in your hard copy of the paper, attached to any separate notes you took. I will redistribute your work to another student in the class, who will mark it for completion and sign their name on the mark.
  5. Then we'll spend most of the rest of the class period discussing the paper. It may be useful for you to have a copy of your group's response on hand.