[Thomas Oliver Beebee]

<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”><span style=”font-style: italic;”>Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”>A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature</p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica;”><span style=”font-size: 11.0pt;”>What is the “tipping point” that makes a scholarly argument persuasive? </span><span style=”font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; background: white;”>This panel combines the sharing of scholarly interests and discoveries that are the purpose of conventions with a pragmatic aspect of rehearsing the mechanics of comparative persuasion. It will consist of lecture-demonstrations that each leads the audience through a single published article that the presenter finds exemplary and important for their own work. The goal is to show how an article can make a convincing and important comparative argument. </span></p>
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<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt;”><span style=”color: black; background: white;”>Abstracts of 200 words – brief bio by 15 March 2017; Thomas Oliver Beebee (</span><span style=”background: white;”>cl-studies@psu.edu</span><span style=”color: black; background: white;”>).</span></p>

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