linguistic

Project description
Topic
Anything, as long as it is about language or linguistics
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Your reaction to a news/magazine article that discusses endangered languages, new
findings about language acquisition, or some new usage in English, etc.
If you have any difficulty with finding one, let me know.
Language watch commentary: You can choose a controversial or striking usage in
English (or another language that you speak fluently) and write a commentary on it,
highlighting the context of more usual usage and course content.
If you use a language other than English please be sure that you give adequate
glossing and translation to explicate the usage and its grammar!
Or something that you encountered in LIN201 which you would like to follow up.
Although it is not at all mandatory, try to make use of concepts covered in LIN201.
This is not a research project, so you do not need to do any library research and should not
feel overwhelmed!
Format
Stapled together with the Rubric/Cover.
The rubric tells you how your paper will be graded.
Typed with 12 point Times New Roman font. Double-spaced!
Roughly 500 words: It is OK to be slightly shorter or longer, but please be reminded that an
journal entry that is extremely long or extremely short may lose some mark.
Please indicate the word-count on your paper.
Printed on US Letter size paper with one-inch margin.
1 itation and style
When you refer to an article that you read, please make sure to cite it properly.
Any citation style (MLA, APA, Chicago) is fine, as long as one style is used consistently.
Absolutely no copying, please!!
If a passage from someone elses writing (be it a blog entry or your friends essay) is
copied verbatim without citation, it is considered a case of academic dishonesty.
If you feel you have to use someone elses writing verbatim in your journal entry, you
can quote it with appropriate citation.
If you are in doubt, just dont hesitate to contact me, or the Writing Center before you
submit your final work.
Use formal/academic writing style, and avoid colloquialism.
The following link contains useful information:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/683/1/

linguistic

Project description
Topic
Anything, as long as it is about language or linguistics
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Your reaction to a news/magazine article that discusses endangered languages, new
findings about language acquisition, or some new usage in English, etc.
If you have any difficulty with finding one, let me know.
Language watch commentary: You can choose a controversial or striking usage in
English (or another language that you speak fluently) and write a commentary on it,
highlighting the context of more usual usage and course content.
If you use a language other than English please be sure that you give adequate
glossing and translation to explicate the usage and its grammar!
Or something that you encountered in LIN201 which you would like to follow up.
Although it is not at all mandatory, try to make use of concepts covered in LIN201.
This is not a research project, so you do not need to do any library research and should not
feel overwhelmed!
Format
Stapled together with the Rubric/Cover.
The rubric tells you how your paper will be graded.
Typed with 12 point Times New Roman font. Double-spaced!
Roughly 500 words: It is OK to be slightly shorter or longer, but please be reminded that an
journal entry that is extremely long or extremely short may lose some mark.
Please indicate the word-count on your paper.
Printed on US Letter size paper with one-inch margin.
1 itation and style
When you refer to an article that you read, please make sure to cite it properly.
Any citation style (MLA, APA, Chicago) is fine, as long as one style is used consistently.
Absolutely no copying, please!!
If a passage from someone elses writing (be it a blog entry or your friends essay) is
copied verbatim without citation, it is considered a case of academic dishonesty.
If you feel you have to use someone elses writing verbatim in your journal entry, you
can quote it with appropriate citation.
If you are in doubt, just dont hesitate to contact me, or the Writing Center before you
submit your final work.
Use formal/academic writing style, and avoid colloquialism.
The following link contains useful information:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/683/1/