| Times | MW 11:00 - 11:50 |
| Location | 260-008 |
| Syllabus | |
| Instructor | Kathryn Flack Potts |
| [appointment sign-up] | |
| UG Research Mentor | Eric Acton |
| Plan | Assignments due | Reading/Reference | |
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| M 1/3 | Organizational meeting | ||
| W 1/5 | How projects develop; finding references | Info sheet Thoughts on topics, etc. |
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| M 1/10 | Organizing projects | Reference report #1 | Reference managers: Zotero, EasyBib, Endnote; some comparisons PDF annotators: Windows: Foxit; Mac: Skim, or Preview allows comments, but its system isn't as good. Also other suggestions |
| W 1/12 | Working with faculty [handout] |
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| M 1/17 | No class: MLK Day | ||
| W 1/19 | Meghan Sumner: Research planning and experiment design [slides] |
Reference reports #2 | |
| M 1/24 | No class; meet with Eric or Kathryn instead | You should meet with each of us at least once during the quarter about your project; at least one of these meetings needs to happen by today. | |
| W 1/26 | Project updates; planning next steps | Reference report and project status | Undergrad conferences: GLEEFUL; McCCLU |
| M 1/31 | Brian Thomas, UAR: Grants for Stanford undergrads [handout] |
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| W 2/2 | Previous Junior Research Projects | (1) Status report (2) Read a previous JRP |
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| M 2/7 | Human subjects research and the IRB | Linguistics department human subjects protocol | |
| W 2/9 | Project updates | Status report Do something useful; tell me about it, and about what you need to do next, as concretely as possible. |
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| M 2/14 | David Clausen: Linguistic corpora | Stanford corpora (see under "Tools" for info on using tgrep, etc.) Google N-grams British National Corpus |
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| W 2/16 | Scott Grimm: LaTeX | Status report As usual, what have you been doing? What's next? Be sure to talk about meeting/working with faculty: who have you met with, and/or what are your plans for setting this up? Who will be your advisor, or how will you figure that out? |
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| M 2/21 | No class: President's Day | ||
| W 2/23 | Vera Gribanova: Doing research projects | (1) Status report (2) By today you need to have at least scheduled (preferably had) a meeting with a potential faculty adviser |
Learn Uzbek, Uyghur, Ukranian, and more at SWSEEL in Bloomington, Indiana! |
| M 2/28 | Planning project timelines | If your computer is accidentally dropped off a ladder, please make sure you have enough backups that you can carry on! Options include off-site storage (Dropbox, Google Docs, or Mozy) or local backups (flash drives, or hard drive + Time Machine); more Stanford advice. |
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| W 3/2 | Jackie Ward, CDC: Thinking about jobs, internships, etc. [presentation] |
Choose your own career in linguistics! | |
| M 3/7 | Presentations: Samara, Josh, Anna, Miriam | ||
| M 3/9 | Presentations: Isaac, Zoe, Lydia, Ellie, Jasmine | ||
| F 3/18 11:30 |
Final project proposals due | ||