LIN 405 Summer 2021

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Instructor: Scott Nelson

Course Meeting Time: T/Th 1:30–3:45pm

Course Zoom link: https://stonybrook.zoom.us/j/4091340647

Office Hours: By appointment (send me an e-mail)

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Important Links

• Syllabus
• Slack
• Workshop Schedule.
• Workshop Google Form

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Class Log

07/01/2021

• Each student gave a 5 minute presentation on their paper.
• Homework:
  • Finish the final draft of your paper due tomorrow by 5pm.
  • Finish the reflection essay due tomorrow by 5pm.

06/29/2021

• We went over how to make slides using Beamer
• We workshopped a paper from Amanda
• Homework:
  • Fill out this Google Form about the class.
  • Work on slides for your 5 minute presentation this Thursday.
  • Work on the final draft of your paper due this Friday by 5pm.
  • Work on the reflection essay due this Friday by 5pm.

06/24/2021

• Zoom Recording with Passcode: 9@GG1TwL
• We talked about academic presentations
• We workshopped papers from Gabriella and Anna
• Homework:
  • Work on slides for your 5 minute presentation next Thursday.
  • Work on the final draft of your paper due next Friday by 5pm.
  • Work on the reflection essay due next Friday by 5pm.

06/22/2021

• Zoom Recording with Passcode: 5M%sCEzw
• We talked about peer review
• We workshopped papers from Cathryn and Raquel
• Homework:
  • Read the Linguistic Society of America’s paper presentation guidelines
  • Read Geoff Pullum’s Five Golden Rules
  • Read How to Give an Academic Talk
  • Submit 3 questions/topics for discussion here

06/17/2021

• Zoom Recording with Passcode: Bsspj+9v
• We talked about linguistics style guides.
• We workshopped papers from Joshua and Kelsia
• Homework:
  • Read A Very Brief Introduction to Scientific Literature and Meet Science: What is Peer Review? and submit 3 questions/topics for discussion here.
  • On the last day of class you will give a short 5 minute talk on your paper to the class. Sign up for a time here.
    • We will discuss the process of presenting papers next week.

06/15/2021

• Zoom Recording with Passcode: u*34@!Nt
• We talked about open-source research and its implication for linguistics.
• We workshopped papers from Jonathon and Thanaree.
• Homework:
  • Read this general linguistics style guide, the Language style guide, and the Linguistic Inquiry style guide.
  • Fill out this Google Form
  • Find the style guide for one of the three journals you found for today’s homework and be ready to briefly talk about it.

06/10/2021

• Zoom Recording with Passcode: ekbT^RV8
• Scott talked about linguistic resources.
  • Google Scholar
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
  • Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • LingBuzz
  • LINGUIST List
• We workshopped papers from Liam and Loizos
• Homework:
  • Submit your mid-session draft by 5pm tomorrow (06/11/2021).
  • Read this blog post on how to recognize pseudo-linguistic writing, this article on open access in linguistics, and this article on SciHub.
    • Submit three questions/topics for discussion here
  • Find 3 new potential sources for your paper
    • For each source figure out how much it would cost you to read if you had to pay full price for it
  • Find 3 linguistics journals that you could skim through for ideas for your current paper or even a future paper

06/08/2021

• Zoom recording with Passcode:
• We discussed the first nine sections of Halmos (1973).
• Scott talked about citations and how to do citations in LaTeX.
• We workshopped papers from Arwen and Ryan.
• Homework:
  • Work on your mid-session draft due this Friday by 5pm.

06/03/2021

• Zoom recording with Passcode: G8xT@7i+
• We discussed abstract writing.
• We continued going over Scott’s Intro to LaTeX handout.
  • If you want to learn more about LaTeX, here is a very thorough wikibook.
• We workshopped a paper from Marc.
• Homework for next class:
  • Read Halmos (1973) pp. 19–33) and submit 3 questions/topics for discussion here.
    • Ignore the fact that it’s about mathematics and focus on what it says about writing.
    • You can skip section 5 “Think About the Alphabet”.
  • Read about the one hour workday.
  • Start working on transferring your paper to Overleaf.

06/01/2021

• Zoom recording with Passcode: ?17CQzw3
• We started going over Scott’s Intro to LaTeX handout.
• We discussed how to write like a linguist.
• We workshopped papers from Zhihao and Chong.
• Homework for next class:
  • Go through Kalil Iskarous’s slides from a Linguistic Society of America webinar on abstract writing.
  • Read the Linguistic Society of America’s model abstracts web page.
  • Write two versions of an abstract for your paper. The first should be 50 words, the second should be 150 words.

05/27/2021

• Zoom recording with Passcode: 9t0h=Z6^
• Scott presented on different types of writing in linguistics and writing basics.
  • This Google Drive folder contains examples of different types of linguistic writing.
• We discussed Macaulay chapters 2-3.
• We workshopped two example papers.
  • Workshop papers will be posted on Slack.
  • Workshop Google Form.
• Homework for next class:
  • Sign up for a workshop date here.
  • E-mail me your paper/paper idea for approval by Monday, May 31 at 5pm.
  • Read Macaulay chapters 4-5 and submit 3 questions/topics for class discussion here.
  • Read Karthik Durvasula’s notes on writing papers.
  • Register for an Overleaf account here before class next Tuesday.

05/25/2021

• Zoom recording with Passcode: ekju^Em7
• We went over the syllabus.
• Scott introduced the class, Slack, and Overleaf.
• Homework for next class:
  • Sign up for a workshop date here.
  • E-mail me your paper/paper idea for approval by Monday, May 31 at 5pm.
  • Read Macaulay chapters 2-3 and submit 3 questions/topics for class discussion here.
  • Join the course Slack channel here.
  • Register for an Overleaf account here.