Final Project

This is the final draft of your project that you should have rewritten incorporating my comments and suggestions on the first draft.

The project essentially entails preparing to conduct a study on the topic of your bibliography, but without actually conducting it. Given what you learned from reading the articles in the bibliography you are to include these sections in this order:

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.

Grading A good project is one that is well-developed enough, and well-written enough that someone could use it as a guide to carrying out an actual study. It is also one that makes a precise hypothesis and whose method would be a good way to test the hypothesis. All of the above sections need to be included as well. This is an individual project, not a group project. A one letter grade reduction will be applied to projects turned in after that time and an additional letter grade drop for every additional day late thereafter. If you have extenuating circumstances based on poor health please contact me before the due date.

Here is an example of an 'A' paper.

Here is another example of an 'A' paper.