RESEARCH AND WRITING
Spring 2012 Thursday 9:10-12:00 文學院413
編號: 1308552
UPDATED 2012/3/25
Coordinator:
James Myers (麥傑)
Office: 文學院247
Tel: 31506
Email: Lngmyers at ccu
dot edu dot tw
Web: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/
Office hours: Tuesday 10-12, or by appointment
Goals: This class is designed to help linguistics graduate students practice arguing and writing more effectively and professionally. You will study examples of good writing, critique examples of bad writing, and do lots of writing and revision of your own work. The end result will be a long term paper, which may or may not be expanded later into a thesis, which must relate to a research area that you have already taken a class on, which does not significantly overlap with any term paper from a previous or current class, and which can be written without having to make regular meetings with your advisor.
Evaluation:
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10% Participation 5% Paper proposal [3/22] 20% First presentation [4/26-5/3] 15% Conference abstract [5/10] |
10% First draft [5/24] 20% Conference presentation [6/7-14] 20% Final paper [6/21] |
Class participation means coming to class prepared, and actively helping other students improve their own work.
The paper proposal is a short (max. 3 pages), organized description of the background, goals, hypotheses, methods, and overall structure (including indication of what work you still need to do). You should make copies for me and all of the other students in the class.
The conference abstract is a one-page, single-spaced English description of the research in your paper. Students are strongly encouraged to submit a version of the abstract to an actual conference, though this may be possible only after the semester ends.
The first presentation (including discussion, length = (3 h - 20 m) / (number of students / 2)) describes the progress being made on your paper. Presentations should be given in whatever language your paper is going to be written in. The other students should discuss each presentation in a helpful, constructive way. Evaluation of the presentations is based only on your academic style, logic, and progress, not on the content.
The first draft is a complete copy of your whole paper, with the data, arguments, references, and overall structure clearly presented. Evaluation is based only on your academic style, logic, and progress. Make copies for me and two of your fellow students.
The conference presentation (including discussion, length = (3 h - 20 m) / (number of students / 2)) should be up to international standards and must be given in English.
The final paper is due one week after the end of class (6/21). I will evaluate it solely on your academic style, logic, and progress, not on the content.
Schedule
*marks
when graded things are due
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Date |
Activities |
Things that are due on this day |
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2/23 |
What's
the point of this class? |
Thoughts on good and bad writing |
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3/1 |
How
to choose a research topic |
Description of possible paper topics |
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3/8 |
Linguistic
resources |
|
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3/15 |
Linguistic
argumentation |
Outlines of sample papers |
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*3/22 |
Discussion
of proposals |
Paper proposal |
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3/29 |
Handling
literature |
Introduction/references of model paper |
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4/5 |
No
class (spring break) |
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4/12 |
Conference
abstracts (I) |
Comments on conference abstracts |
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4/19 |
Presentation
style |
|
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*4/26 |
First
presentations (I) |
Handout/slides |
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*5/3 |
First
presentations (II) |
Handout/slides |
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*5/10 |
Conference
abstracts (II) |
Your own conference abstract |
|
5/17 |
Responding
to criticism |
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*5/24 |
Discussion
of first drafts (I) |
First draft of term paper (three copies) |
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5/31 |
Discussion
of first drafts (II) |
Comments on fellow students' first drafts |
|
*6/7 |
Conference
presentations (I) |
Handout/slides |
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*6/14 |
Conference
presentations (II) [last class] |
Handout/slides |
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*6/21 |
Final
term paper |
Due in my mailbox by 5 pm |
Some writing guidebooks
Allison, Alida, and Terri Frongia. 1992. The grad student's guide to getting published. New York: Prentice Hall.
Gibaldi, Joseph. 1999. MLA handbook for writers of research papers. New York: MLA.
Slade, Carole. 1997. Form and style: Research papers, reports, and theses (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Sternberg, Robert J. (ed.) 2000. Guide to publishing in psychology journals. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. 1994. Academic writing for graduate students: A course for nonnative speakers of English. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Thyer, Bruce A. 1994. Successful publishing in scholarly journals. London: Sage.
Turabian, Kate L. 1996. A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations (6th ed.). Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Wood, Nancy V. 2006. Essentials of argument. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Sample papers
Gordon, Matthew. 2004. Positional weight constraints in Optimality Theory. Linguistic Inquiry 35.692-703.Lng
Levelt, C. C. (2012). Perception mirrors production in 14- and 18-month-olds: The case of coda consonants. Cognition, 123, 174–179.APA
Myers, James. 2012. All about fruit. National Chung Cheng University ms.
Lng Formatted in Language style
APA Formatted in American Psychological Association style