Semester Assignment

Seminar 11: End of the semester task December 12, 2013 · by nataneva · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment Dear All– Here is the explanation of your assignment you need to complete to be assessed for this course. You will have to complete 2 tasks. 1. Write an annotated bibliography of resources for your course … Continue reading →

Seminar 9: Annotated bibliography

Today you are going to create an annotated bibliography of resources for your course paper.Your bibliography should contain 10 resources, with 5 of them in English and 5 in Russian. In addition to providing full reference, each item on your bibliography should be accompanied with 150 word summary of the book’s or article’s summary. An … Continue reading →

Wikitongues: documenting the world’s languages

Originally posted on Sentence first:
Wikitongues has been on the go since 2012, but I heard about it just recently. It’s a project aimed at documenting linguistic diversity and exploring identity, in the form of short videos of people speaking different languages and dialects – about 50 at the time of writing. Based in New…

Writing your literature review for the course paper

Today we’ll discuss with you what your literature review should consist of and how to write it. To this end, I’ve collected a number of different resources all dealing with this question. To gain the most from this activity and learn from each other I am going to divide you in small groups, with each … Continue reading →

Seminar 7: Using bookmarking sites to collect resources

Here is a resource I found with the help of diigo.com I would like you to have a look at to review some aspects of plagiarism and how to avoid it https://sites.google.com/site/researchinthedigitalage/ You then need to find a resource in the collections of bookmarks on diigo.com which deals with your research subject, study it and bookmark … Continue reading →

Seminar 6: Paraphrasing and Summarising

Today we are going to practise paraphrasing and summarising. These are two of the three main ways of explaining something written or said by another person. Why is it necessary? This is what you do when you review smb else’s works for your literature review when you write your course or graduation paper. We are … Continue reading →

Paraphrasing

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/976/02/ And here is a link to the exercise we’ll do to practise paraphrasing https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/28/12/33 And here is a list of reporting verbs youn might use when reporting smb else’s ideas: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/learning_english/leap/grammar/reportingverbs/ Now let’s have some further practice and decide whethether the examples given at http://gsi.berkeley.edu/teachingguide/misconduct/exercise.html present adequate/inadequate paraphrasis of the original and explain why Continue reading →

Article summary template

I have created a template which will it easier for you to summarise articles. Here it is: The article “Title” written by NAME OF THE AUTHOR is devoted to the discussion of the problem (s) SPECIFY the PROBLEM (S). First, the author draws our attention to ______________. Then s/he analyses the ___________. S/he gives an … Continue reading →

Seminar 4

In the thread below add the topic of your future course paper (if you have it already) or some linguistic topic you are interested in. We’re going to have a look at several tools and resources available on the web to help you with it. 1. Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com.ua/ But first read a short article … Continue reading →

Reviewing ReCALL articles

Reading and summarising research articles on different aspects of using the technology in linguistics research Today you are going to get acquainted with some recent research in linguistics and ICT. To do this you are going to look through an article of your choice in ReCALL, a specialised research journal published by Cambridge devoted to … Continue reading →