Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students, Web links

Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students
Second Edition
Monica Macaulay

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xiv + 159 pages
publication date: January 2011

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Web links

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Chapter 1

Before Graduate School

Graduate Study in Linguistics: Choosing a Program That's Right for You
www.lsadc.org/info/res-gradschool-guide.cfm

Zachary Brooks on applying to grad school in linguistics
applelinguist.wordpress.com/linguistics-phd-programs-application-and-review

LSA descriptions of subfields
www.lsadc.org/info/ling-fields.cfm

FAQs from the LSA
www.lsadc.org/info/ling-faqs.cfm

GRE
www.ets.org/gre

Linguist List job listings
www.linguistlist.org/jobs

Linguistics programs
www.linguistlist.org/teach/programs

Resources for language and gender
www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng

International Gender and Language Association email list
www.linguistlist.org/lists/get-list-detail.cfm?List=30

Resources

At Cross Purposes: What the Experiences of Today's Doctoral Students Reveal about Doctoral Education
www.phd-survey.org

So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!
www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/azuma.html

University of Wisconsin Writing Center Writer's Handbook
www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook

Funding and Job Prospects Post-Degree

National Science Foundation
www.nsf.gov

Linguist List's "How They Became Linguists"
www.linguistlist.org/studentportal/linguists/index.cfm

Careers in linguistics
www.lin.oakland.edu/careers.html

Linguist List job listings
www.linguistlist.org/jobs

While You're Still in School: Consider Computational Linguistics
This page mentioned in the 1st edition is no longer available
web.archive.org/web/20070213075932/http://
www.georgetown.edu/compling/compling-careers.html

Linguistic Enterprises
This page mentioned in the 1st edition is no longer available
web.archive.org/web/20080123200018/http://
www.lsadc.org/info/lingent/index.htm

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
www.woodrow.org

Chapter 2

Learning about the Field

Why Major in Linguistics?
www.lsadc.org/info/ling-faqs-whymajor.cfm

Linguist List
www.linguistlist.org

The Linguist List Student Portal
www.linguistlist.org/studentportal

Linguistic Fieldwork Preparation: A Guide for Field Linguists
www.chass.utoronto.ca/lingfieldwork

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
www.lsadc.org

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
www.aaal.org

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
www.actfl.org

Computational Linguistics
www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/nlp.html

Endangered Language Fund
www.endangeredlanguagefund.org

The International Phonetic Association
www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)
www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA)
roa.rutgers.edu

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
www.ssila.org

Funknet
mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet

Linguist List and more
www.linguistlist.org/lists

Optimal List
camba.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/optimal

AAAL-l
This mailing list mentioned in the 1st edition is no longer active

Linguist List archives
listserv.linguistlist.org/archives

PrinParam
This mailing list mentioned in the 1st edition is no longer active

Discussion of gender issues in academia
people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pipeline.html

Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL)
www.lsadc.org/info/lsa-comm-women.cfm

OUT in Linguistics (OUTIL)
www-csli.stanford.edu/~zwicky/outil

Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA)
ling.wisc.edu/wilma

Feminists in Linguistics (FLING)
listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/fling.html

Fonts and Software

Arboreal
www.cascadilla.com/arboreal.html

IPAPhon
www.chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/fonts.html

SIL International IPA Fonts
scripts.sil.org/FontDownloads

Yamada Language Center Font Archive
This site mentioned in the 1st edition has been taken off-line.
Similar resources: www.typenow.net/language.htm and www.freelang.net/fonts

LaTeX for Linguists
www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/latex4ling/

Linguist List Text and Computer Tools
www.linguistlist.org/tools

SIL International software
www.sil.org/computing/catalog

Linguistics Fun

Robert Beard's links
www.alphadictionary.com/fun/fun.html

Speculative Grammarian
www.specgram.com

Don't write like this (artificial Chomsky)
rubberducky.org/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl

Linguistics Challenge
This has evolved into the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu

Chapter 3

LSA guidelines on nonsexist writing
www.lsadc.org/info/lsa-res-usage.cfm

American Philosophical Association guidelines on nonsexist writing
www.apaonline.org/publications/texts/nonsexist.aspx

University of Wisconsin Writing Center Writer's Handbook
www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook

The LSA's Ethics Statement
www.lsadc.org/info/lsa-res.cfm

Chapter 4

Committee of Editors of Linguistics Journals
www.celxj.org

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
www.archive.org

Comparison of citation managers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

Chapter 6

Linguistics conferences
www.unc.edu/linguistics/confinfo.html

LSA model abstracts
www.lsadc.org/info/abstract-models.cfm

Guide to writing conference abstracts at unc.edu
http://www.unc.edu/linguistics/confinfo.html

Guide to writing conference abstracts at ufl.edu
web.clas.ufl.edu/users/wiltshir/abstract.htm

Guide to writing conference abstracts at ucsb.edu
www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/sociocultural/abstracttips.html

Guide to writing conference abstracts at leidenuniv.nl
This page mentioned in the 1st edition is no longer available.

Guidelines for Giving an LSA Paper
www.lsadc.org/info/meet-papguide.cfm

Guide to designing a poster
www.lsadc.org/info/meet-poster.cfm

Chapter 7

Grant Proposals

National Science Foundation (U.S.): Grant Proposal Guide
www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=gpg11001

National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.): Advice on Preparing Your Grant
www.neh.gov/grants/advice.html

Social Science Research Council: The Art of Writing Proposals
www.ssrc.org/publications/view/7A9CB4F4-815F-DE11-BD80-001CC477EC70/

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
www.cfda.gov

Publishing an Article in a Journal

Neal Whitman's summary of panel on publishing
literalminded.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/how-to-publish-a-scholarly-paper/

Linguistics journals list
www.linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs

Language's Notes to Contributors
www.lsadc.org/info/pubs-lang-notes.cfm

Chapter 8

Writing center guide to dissertations
www.cgu.edu/pages/880.asp

How to Avoid Graduation
www.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/undvik

Dissertation consultants
www.asgs.org/consults.html

Chapter 9

Chronicle of Higher Education
www.chronicle.com

MLA Career Resources
www.mla.org/resources/career_resources

Dos and Don'ts for MLA Convention Interviews
www.mla.org/jil_jobseekers_dos

MLA page for job candidates
www.mla.org/jil_jobseekers_che

The MLA Job Information List
www.mla.org/jil

References

Golde, Chris M., and Timothy M. Dore. 2001. At Cross Purposes: What the Experiences of Today's Doctoral Students Reveal about Doctoral Education. Philadelphia: A report prepared for The Pew Charitable Trusts.
www.phd-survey.org