LIN 201 CANADIAN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT 4
Writing an abstract and bibliography
This assignment is designed
to help you develop your research plan for this course, to organise your ideas,
and to learn about writing an abstract and a bibliography appropriately for the
field of linguistics.
For your research project,
you are strongly encouraged
to work with 1 or 2 other class members. If you have already selected your
research partners, please do this assignment with them. Turn in 1 copy with all
your names and student numbers on the top of it.
You can either look at
(recent) past issues in the Periodical Stacks, or the latest
versions in the Current Issues section on the Ground Floor of Robarts Library. Alternatively, you can access journals
online through the U of T library website: http://content.library.utoronto.ca/
.
Note: You don't have to choose articles for this assignment that are relevant to your own research project, but it might be helpful. The main goal here is to see how to write an abstract in linguistics and how to cite references properly.
Step 2: For
practice in bibliography compilation, please submit a bibliography listing the
5 articles whose abstracts you read.
Choose a format from any one of the above journals and use it consistently to write
your bibliography. Alternatively, if you know of at least 5 relevant sources for your
project, you can prepare that bibliography instead. This might include some papers from our class packet, but
would need to include others as well.
Step 3: Think about what's in an abstract and how abstracts are organized. More tips on writing abstracts.
Step 4: THE BIG ONE:Write
an abstract for your research project.
Follow the format you have just learned about that you think most
appropriate.