| Times | M 9:00–9:50 am W 3:35-4:25 pm |
| Location | 460-127B |
| Syllabus | |
| Instructor | Kathryn Flack Potts |
| Plan | Assignments due | Reading/Reference | |
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| M 1/4 | Organizational meeting | ||
| W 1/6 | Organizing projects | Thoughts on topics, etc. | Zotero: a nice, free reference manager |
| M 1/11 | Finding references Breakfast: Kathryn |
Reference report | |
| W 1/13 | Choosing a methodology | List of ideas/questions | Backups: about Time Machine and Dropbox |
| M 1/18 | No class: MLK Day | ||
| W 1/20 | Identifying suitably narrow topics | Reference & library report | On choosing topics: McCarthy ch. 2 and section 3.6; Green and Morgan ch. 2 |
| M 1/25 | No class; meet with Kathryn individually sometime this week (Schedule a time here) |
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| W 1/27 | Meghan Sumner: planning experiments | Status report | |
| M 2/1 | Typing in IPA, etc. Breakfast: JW |
Typesetting phonology papers, IPA shortcuts in Word, and How to be a professional academic | |
| W 2/3 | Writing resumes | Reference report | Resume info, and some samples |
| M 2/8 | Brian Thomas, Undergraduate Advising and Research Breakfast: Aya |
UAR Student Grants Program | |
| W 2/10 | Discuss projects | Reference report (2 papers) |
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| M 2/15 | No class: President's Day | ||
| W 2/17 | Margot Gilleland, Career Development Center | ||
| M 2/22 | What you need to know about the IRB Breakfast: Kayla |
Status report #2 | Department and university IRB info |
| W 2/24 | Rob Munro: How linguistics can make the world a better place | ||
| M 3/1 | Planning the rest of your projects Breakfast: Cybelle |
Deadline for small and major grants, for those of you applying | |
| W 3/3 | Helle Rytkonen, Hume Writing Center | On writing linguistics papers: Green and Morgan ch. 4 and McCarthy ch. 3 Sample Junior Research Paper |
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| M 3/8 | No class | ||
| W 3/10 | Presentations | ||
| F 3/19 | Project proposals due by 5:00 pm | ||