End of the Semester Activities

1. Last day of class

Group 01 Thursday, June 16

Group 04 Wednesday, June 15

Group 05---Tuesday, June 21

2. Final Exam

Groups 01 and 04---Monday, June 27

Group 05---Tuesday, June 28

(bring your own liquid paper and pen. NO BORROWING IS ALLOWED).

3. Final Grades

Final grades will be ready on Monday, July 4

4. Extra-credit Exam

Tuesday, July 5 at 8:00AM

5. Research Paper

Guidelines:

a. Make groups of 3 members each.

b. Paper will be hand written (legible penmanship is required).

c. Due date: Monday, June 27

d. Avoid plagiarism (suspected actions will disqualify entire paper and members of the group).

e. paper includes a folder, title page and fastener.

f. Topic: one of the contents covered during the semester on Linguistics.

INTRODUCTION

• State the research question you are trying to answer
• State why the question is important
• State the issues involved
• State why we should be concerned with resolving whatever issues are involved
• State how answering the question will help us
• State the implications and consequences of dealing with or resolving the issues involved

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

• Identify who has tried to answer the question before by doing the following:
• Summarize how each of the sources presents and deals with the subject
• Explain how each source presents and deals with its findings or results
• Explain the relevancy of each source to your research question
• State what you learned from each of your sources
• State in what way(s) each source contributes to answering your research question

DISCUSSION

• State your answer to your research question
• State how and elaborate on how, explain how, illustrate how each of the sources you previously reviewed help you answer your research question
• State what questions about your topic you still have that your sources may not have answered

CONCLUSIONS*

• State the conclusions regarding your topic you have reached from having surveyed, interpreted, evaluated the literature
• Indicate how each of the sources have contributed to your conclusions (and clearly, accurately, correctly document those sources within your text)
• State the implications of your conclusions
• State what might be the possible consequences of your conclusions
• State the social significance these implications and consequences might have

DOCUMENTATION*

• On a separate page, include a section labeled References which provides the full publication information for all the sources you used in your paper
• You should have a MINIMUM of three (3) sources for your paper
• Not meeting this minimum requirement of three (3) sources will lead to a lower evaluation of your paper for each missing source
• Use APA format for documenting your sources