Last Call: "At-A-Glance"

Dear Writers of Rome,

Just an urgent note about the At-A-Glance handouts for the site presentations in Rome, which were called for several days ago in this blog post.

I'm missing seven of them: if I've emailed you, you know who you are. But please read on.

I won't waste your time and mine by calling this situation unacceptable: it clearly is, as is the fact that I have to badger some of you to submit your work.

A larger, more concerning issue is that I've heard from several of you that you had no idea that we need handouts and are making a booklet.

This news is worrisome because, as both Dr. Spinner and I noted before the end of the semester, this transitional time between Reading and Writing Rome is critical to the success of the travel seminar. We have posted and will continue to post notices up until departure and in Rome, so you must read everything that comes across your screen fully and carefully.

In the meantime, if those of you with outstanding At-A-Glance sheets could please get them to me by noon tomorrow (Tuesday), I'll have time to include them in the booklet: Office Services tells me that they can work with a truncated production schedule.

Please review the original At-A-Glance post and follow the formatting specs to the letter. I've spent the better part of the day deformatting many an improper handout, and time is running out.

If I don't receive a handout from you, the book will have to go to press as is, and you'll start TX 200 with red in your ledger. That's regrettable, but there's nothing else for it.

Thanks for your attention in this matter.

DC

Website Update: Site Reports

Dear Roman Writers,

Our Site reports page is now available on the official Writing Rome website. Please navigate on over and have a look.

The page offers, in addition to a rudimentary schedule of presentations, guidelines for successful reports as well as the evaluation form that the instructional team will use for grading purposes.

We suggest that you spend some time now looking over both the page and the form so you can begin, if only subconsciously, to plan ahead.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

DC/gs

What "Two Pages" Means...

"At-A-Glance"

Dear Readers and (soon-to-be) Writers of Rome,

Allow us to clarify what we are looking for in a site presentation handout, or what we are now calling "At-A-Glance."

We would like your (unannotated) bibliography, selected images, and major bullet points (not all your own talking points, but the most important names, dates, and themes you want to register with your audience). This information should occupy no more than 2 single-spaced pages. (See the additional technical requirements, below).

Some of you will have to edit down the handouts you've already shown us. You might be able to pare them down by using single-spacing, but avoid having huge blocks of text. Do use spacing to differentiate major blocks of information, and make the reading easier.

The technical:

• MS Word document (no PDFs);
• 2 single-spaced pages;
• 12-point Times New Roman font;
• one-inch margins;
• no page numbers, headers, or footers.

As noted, we'll assemble the handouts into a booklet that all of us will consult on-site during the reports. As such, we might have to do some minor editing; the above technical requirements will hopefully keep that editing to a minimum. Bear in mind that your pages will be shrunk down 25% to fit the booklet format.

Please submit your "At-A-Glance" document no later than Sunday, May 10 (although earlier would be appreciated).

We are excited with how the site presentations are shaping up, and looking forward to hearing them in their full glory while in Rome.

DC/gs