But if my discussion was about a card-play topic, the students are already primed.
A hoax is often a parody of some occurrence or a play upon topics that are newsworthy.
And Bayes's theorem, which helps assess the role of random chance in observed events, comes into play in topics ranging from drug testing to Ty Cobb's batting averages.
Ostensibly a game, it's also a distribution strategy: packaged in rough brown cardboard, each game contains four short films, instructions on playing and topics for discussion.
I doubt that either was inspired by the sort of partisan politics that have made the play a topic of such bruising debate in New York.
A key role in the analysis of textual UGC is played by topics, meant as specific concepts of interest within a subject area.
But even with the best map in place, collaboration is a skill that requires transforming the way we work together, moving more deeply into reflection and conversation, and getting underneath the most comfortable and played-out topics.
Twenty-one Kenyan interviewers (7 males; 14 females) from different ethnic groups were trained by five expatriate and four Kenyan researchers, involving classroom-based teaching and experimental role-play on topics including completion of the survey, sampling techniques, informed consent, logistics, confidentiality, sexual violence, and mental health.
Asked one day if he would like to be traded so he could get more playing time, Topic looked around the star-studded locker room and said, "I sit here".
History and the interconnectivity of subject binds these earlier pieces together, as titles and topics play off one another across the surface of each work.
