Critique of Classmate's First Draft

Please turn in two copies

This is your chance to help your classmate (and for him/her to help you) get a better grade on the final project. Please give constructive criticism. First, make sure that your classmate has addressed all of the following points:

Introduction Introduce the topic and tie the articles that you annotated together. Explain what has been done in this area and what you feel still needs to be done. Show why your study is important and how it relates to the ones you have cited. Define the question you want to study and specifically state your hypothesis, and what you expect to find.

Method What are you going to do to get evidence for or against your hypothesis? Will you use evidence from corpora or will you do an experiment. How will you conduct the experiment or corpus study? If it's a corpus justify your selection of corpora. If it's an experiment, what will you participants do? What will you measure? Collocation frequency? Speaker's judgments? Reaction times?

Participants If people will take your experiment, who will you choose? How many? What factors are important in your selection of participants?

Test items What will your corpus search specifically look for? What specific test items will you use? Justify your selection in terms of their ability to test the hypothesis.

Results and conclusions Assuming that you have measured something during the study, how will you analyze it? What statistical procedure would you use? How would the results confirm or negate your hypothesis? How would you determine that? What would different outcomes say about the topic and how do those relate back to the articles you read?

Bibliography Put the references here in alphabetical order. Don't include the the annotation.

Please specify what is missing, and what could be improved. Second, ask yourself if you could take what is described and use it as a guide to carry out an experiment. Is there something that is not clear enough or needs to be added? Is there irrelevant material? Third, would the study actually be relevant to the specified hypothesis? If not, why not? What would make it better?