WEEK 6

This week we discussed summaries and paraphrases. The following presentation contains information about paraphrasing summarizing and directly quoting from source material.


The following are two proposals one written about literature (MLA style) and the other about linguistics (APA style). They have comments and corrections on them. You could use these comments to edit your own essays.

WEEK 1

This week we started analysing articles published in academic journals. Your assignment for the first week is:

Task Sheet 1 - Analysing academic articles, read the three articles in the PDF file below, then

answer the questions on the tasksheet.

Deadlines:

Group A - Thursday (21/01/2013)
Group B - Monday (25/02/2013)

WEEK 2

Choosing a good topic is the first step to writing a good research paper. The following task sheet has been designed to guide you in this process.

Print out and bring this task sheet to class on Monday 25/02 2013 (Both group A and Group B)

Possible topic areas:

The following are some of the broad areas you can think of for topic selection.

Language Teaching and Linguistics related topics:

Culture shock
Bilingualism
Acculturation
English in the workplace
English used in the media
How Turkish is influenced by the dominance of English (borrowed words in Turkish from English)
Investigation of the structural issues of the English language.
ESL in elementary education
Age in second language development
Fossilization in L2 learners
Speaking in a second language
L2 listening
Instructed grammar
Reading in a second language
Teaching and learning vocabulary
Analyses of second language text and what can be learnt
Communicative language teaching
Task based teaching
form-focused instruction
Computer assisted language learning
L2 learning strategies
Language assessment (testing)
Intercultural competence

Literature related topic:

Investigation of various themes in works of literature.
(The works of literature menationed below can be obtained from the writing teacher)
Examining metaphors in poetry (e.g. in Sylvia Plath)
Study of Literary terms

Expression of identity in literature

e.g. Rullo May: "The Experience of being a person,"
James Joyce: "Araby"
Richard Writgh: "The man who was almost a man"
John Updike : " A&M"
Rita Dove: "Adolescence III"

Phenomenal Woman (issues related to women in literature)

Virginia Woolf: "Professons for women"
Adrienne Rich "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
Joyce Carol Yeates: "Where are you going, where have you been?"
Marge Piercy: "Barbie Doll"
Maya Angelou:"Phenomenal Woman"
Kate Rushin: "The tired poem: last letter from a typical unemployed black professional woman"
Susan Glaspell: "Trifles"

A Dream Deferred (issues related to dreams, expectations)

Martin Luther King:"I have a dream"
Langston Hughes:"Harlem"
Langston Hughes:"As I grew older"
Gwendolyn Brooks: "Sadie and Maud"
Wole Soyinka:"Telephone conversation"
Charles Johnson:"Exchange Value"

Families (issues related to family)

Russel Baker:"Growing up"
Frank O'Connor:"My Oedipus Complex"
Anne sexton:"The Fury of Overshoes"
Audre Lorde:"Hanging Fire"
Liliana Heker:"The Stolen Party"

True Love

William Shakespeare:"Sonnet 116: let me not to the marriage of true minds"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
Judith Viorst: "True Love"

Madness

Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-tale heart"
Emily Dickinson:"Much Madness is divinest Sense"
Robert Browning:"Prophyria's Lover"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:"The Yellow Wall paper"
Sylvia Plath:"Lady Lazarus"

Death

Emily Dickinson:" Because I could not stop for death"
Dylan Thomas: "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Sylvia Plath:"Death &Co"
Isabel Allende:"Out of Clay are we created"

Comparison of various periods of literature.