I am organizing an optional discussion group for Linguistics students who are interested in the possibility of doing research. We will discuss general topics about doing research, from picking a topic for research through publication, including methodology, finding and organizing references, and ethics for experiments. There will be a lot of time for questions and discussion as well! I will update this page with general information as needed.
No experience necessary. You do not need to be currently involved in research to participate. But if you are working on a project we can discuss it with the group. What you learn will be useful if you plan to continue to grad school, work on your own research project soon, or just to help with research projects/papers for classes. If there is time/interest we might also work on a small project together.
Schedule: weekly meetings during Winter Quarter 2023
Time: 5-6pm Tuesdays (see schedule below)
Location: HMNSS 2412 (conference room)
Week 3 (first meeting) (Jan. 24): Introductions and background
Week 4 (Jan. 31): Starting a project and choosing a topic
Week 5 (Feb. 7): Outline of steps in a research project in Linguistics and discussion of what linguists do, including using Linguist List (browse online or subscribe to the "LingLite" daily digest to see announcements for current conferences, publications, jobs, summer schools and more). For example, see this undergrad conference coming up soon (among a few others each year): Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference 4
Week 6 (Feb. 14): Finding and organizing references for research, with this guide to finding references and the free application Zotero for organizing them and automatically generating bibliographies.
Week 7 (Feb. 21): research ethics (including IRB) and statistics: slides
Week 8 (Feb. 28): Example of some of my research: language acquisition research in Ecuador (M.A. qualifying exam paper)
Week 9 (March 7): Graduate school
Week 10 (March 14): Remaining questions, and updates about your own projects and/or discussion of research topics you might want to study now
Possible topics for future weeks: methodology, accessing multilingual scholarship, conferences, publishing
Textbook available as ebook through UCR library: Introducing Linguistic Research