RESEARCH AND WRITING
Spring 2010 Friday
9:10-12:00 文學院413
編號: 1308552
Updated
2010/6/7
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: Thursday
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:
|
10%
Participation 5%
Paper proposal [3/26] 20%
First presentation [4/30-5/7] |
15%
Conference abstract [5/14] 10%
First draft [5/28] 20%
Conference presentation [6/11-18] 20%
Final paper [6/25] |
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 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 (15
minutes, 5 minutes discussion) 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 three copies, one for me and two for student
reviewers who we'll select in class.
The conference
presentation (15 minutes, 5 minutes discussion) should be up to international
standards and should be given in the language of your
final paper.
The final paper is due one
week after the end of class (6/25). I will evaluate it solely on your academic
style, logic, and progress, not on the content (though I may give my personal
opinions on the content as well).
Schedule
*
marks due dates
|
Date |
Activities |
Things that are due on this day |
|
2/26 |
What's
the point of this class? |
Thoughts
on good and bad writing |
|
3/5 |
How
to choose a research topic |
Description
of possible paper topics |
|
3/12 |
Linguistic
resources |
|
|
3/19 |
Linguistic
argumentation |
Outlines
of sample papers |
|
*3/26 |
Discussion
of proposals |
Paper
proposal |
|
4/2 |
*** NO CLASS *** |
|
|
4/9 |
Handling
literature |
Introduction
& references of your model paper |
|
4/16 |
Conference
abstracts (I) |
Comments
on conference abstracts |
|
4/23 |
Presentation
style |
|
|
*4/30 |
First
presentations (I) |
Handout/slides |
|
*5/7 |
First
presentations (II) |
Handout/slides |
|
*5/14 |
Conference
abstracts (II) |
Your
own conference abstract |
|
5/21 |
Responding
to criticism |
|
|
*5/28 |
Discussion
of first drafts (I) |
First
draft of term paper (three copies) |
|
6/4 |
Discussion
of first drafts (II) [class un-canceled] |
Comments
on fellow students' first drafts |
|
*6/11 |
Conference-style
presentations (I) |
Handout/slides |
|
*6/18 |
Conference-style
presentations (II) (last class) |
Handout/slides |
|
*6/25 |
Final
term paper |
Due
in my mailbox by 5 pm (don't be late!) |
Some writing guidebooks
Allison, Alida,
and Terri Frongia. 1992. The grad student's guide to getting published.
Gibaldi, Joseph. 1999. MLA handbook for writers of research papers.
Slade, Carole. 1997. Form and style: Research papers, reports,
and theses (10th ed.).
Sternberg, Robert J. (ed.)
2000. Guide to publishing in psychology
journals.
Swales, John M., and Christine
B. Feak. 1994. Academic
writing for graduate students: A course for nonnative speakers of English.
Thyer, Bruce A. 1994. Successful publishing in scholarly journals.
Turabian, Kate L. 1996. A manual for writers of term papers, theses,
and dissertations (6th ed.).
Wood, Nancy V. 2006. Essentials of argument.
Some
sample papers
Caponigro, Ivano, and
Lisa Pearl. 2009. The nominal nature of where,
when, and how: Evidence from free relatives. Linguistic Inquiry 40.155-164.Lng
Myers, James. Not dated.
All about fruit. National Chung Cheng University ms.
Gouldthorp, B., & Coney, J. (2009). The
sensitivity of the right hemisphere to contextual information in sentences. Brain & Language, 110, 95-100.APA
Lng Formatted in Language style
APA Formatted
in American Psychological Association style