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Narrowing topics for semester project

  • Input topic (again)
  • How gender affects the development of a first language
  • Differences between L1 and L2 in terms of reading and writing
  • Gender differences in conversation
  • Historical shifts in colloquial language

WRITING

Style Sheets (with examples)

LSA:

Eddington, David.  2001. Surface analogy and spelling rules in English vowel alternations.  Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20.85-105.

MLA:

Eddington, David.  "Surface Analogy and Spelling Rules in English Vowel Alternations.Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20 (2001):  85-105.

APA:

Eddington, D.  (2001).  Surface analogy and spelling rules in English vowel alternations.  Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 20, 85-105.

Citing studies

  • Bowie (1999) found that . . .
  • In one study (Bowie 1999) a significant difference was found . . .
  • This was observed in several studies (Bowie 1999; MacKay 2004; Zukowski 1991).
Organizing Research Paper
  1. Introduce topic/problem to be addressed
  2. Review literature
  3. The experiment
    1. Subjects
    2. Stimuli
    3. Design
    4. Procedure
    5. Results
    6. Discussion
  4. Conclusions
If it is corpus-based then #3 is:
  1. Corpus selection
  2. Design
  3. Procedure
  4. Results
  5. Discussion