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Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students
Second Edition

Monica Macaulay
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Front cover image   xiv + 159 pages
publication date: January 2011

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This page contains all the website addresses listed in the 1st and 2nd editions of Surviving Linguistics. We update this page regularly to keep links current. If you notice a link that is not working, please send e-mail to webmaster@cascadilla.com.

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
web.archive.org/web/20100621054949/https://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
or applelinguist.wordpress.com/linguistics-phd-programs-–-application-and-review/linguistics-phd-programs-application-and-review/

LSA descriptions of subfields
www.lsadc.org/info/ling-fields.cfm
www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/articles-domain-linguistics

FAQs from the LSA
www.lsadc.org/info/ling-faqs.cfm
www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/linguistics-and-language-FAQs

GRE
www.ets.org/gre

Linguist List job listings
www.linguistlist.org/jobs
linguistlist.org/career/search

Linguistics programs
www.linguistlist.org/teach/programs
linguistlist.org/programs

Resources for language and gender
www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng
or web.archive.org/web/20130524094737/http://
  www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng/


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

Resources

At Cross Purposes: What the Experiences of Today's Doctoral Students Reveal about Doctoral Education
www.phd-survey.org
phd-survey.org/report%20final.pdf

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
writing.wisc.edu/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
linguistlist.org/linguists

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

Linguist List job listings
www.linguistlist.org/jobs
linguistlist.org/career/search

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
This organization is now called the Institute for Citizens & Scholars
www.woodrow.org
citizensandscholars.org

Chapter 2

Learning about the Field

Why Major in Linguistics?
www.lsadc.org/info/ling-faqs-whymajor.cfm
www.linguisticsociety.org/content/why-major-linguistics

Linguist List
www.linguistlist.org
linguistlist.org

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

Linguistic Fieldwork Preparation: A Guide for Field Linguists
www.chass.utoronto.ca/lingfieldwork
archived at web.archive.org/web/20211022220822/http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/lingfieldwork

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

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)
www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG
ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/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
This mailing list is no longer active, but an archive is available at listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/funknet

Linguist List and more
www.linguistlist.org/lists
linguistlist.org/mailinglist

Optimal List
This mailing list is no longer active

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

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

Discussion of gender issues in academia
This link is no longer available.
people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pipeline.html

Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL)
www.lsadc.org/info/lsa-comm-women.cfm
Now the Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics (COGEL)
www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/committees/gender-equity

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

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

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

Fonts and Software

Arboreal
www.cascadilla.com/arboreal.html

IPAPhon
This link is no longer available.
www.chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/fonts.html

SIL International IPA Fonts
scripts.sil.org/FontDownloads
software.sil.org/fonts/

Yamada Language Center Font Archive
This site mentioned in the 1st edition has been taken off-line.
Similar resources: 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
old.linguistlist.org/sp/GetWRListings.cfm?wrtypeid=2

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

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.nacloweb.org
Chapter 3

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

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

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

The LSA's Ethics Statement
www.lsadc.org/info/lsa-res.cfm
www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-revised-ethics-statement-approved-july-2019

Chapter 4

Committee of Editors of Linguistics Journals
www.celxj.org
www.linguisticsociety.org/celxj

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
linguistics.unc.edu/for-students/linguistics-conferences

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

Guide to writing conference abstracts at unc.edu
www.unc.edu/linguistics/confinfo.html
writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/abstracts

Guide to writing conference abstracts at ufl.edu
web.clas.ufl.edu/users/wiltshir/abstract.htm
web.archive.org/web/20181024005641/http://users.clas.ufl.edu/wiltshir/abstract.htm

Guide to writing conference abstracts at ucsb.edu
www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/sociocultural/abstracttips.html
web.archive.org/web/20130524103711/http://
  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
www.linguisticsociety.org/files/Guidelines%20for%20Giving%20an%20LSA%20Paper.pdf

Guide to designing a poster
www.lsadc.org/info/meet-poster.cfm
www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/lsa-poster-guidelines

Chapter 7

Grant Proposals

National Science Foundation (U.S.): Grant Proposal Guide
www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=gpg11001
replaced by www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf23001

National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.): Advice on Preparing Your Grant
www.neh.gov/grants/advice.html
web.archive.org/web/20120317150034/http://
  www.neh.gov/grants/advice.html


Social Science Research Council: The Art of Writing Proposals
www.ssrc.org/publications/view/the-art-of-writing-proposals/

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
www.cfda.gov
sam.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
linguistlist.org/journals

Language's Notes to Contributors
www.lsadc.org/info/pubs-lang-notes.cfm
www.linguisticsociety.org/lsa-publications/language/notes-to-contributors

Chapter 8

Writing center guide to dissertations
www.cgu.edu/pages/880.asp
archived at web.archive.org/web/20160803173737/http://www.cgu.edu/pages/880.asp

How to Avoid Graduation
www.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/undvik
archived at web.archive.org/web/20110408164843/http://www.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/undvik

Dissertation consultants
www.asgs.org/consults.html
This page mentioned in the 1st edition is no longer available

Chapter 9

Chronicle of Higher Education
www.chronicle.com

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

Dos and Don'ts for MLA Convention Interviews
www.mla.org/jil_jobseekers_dos
www.mla.org/Resources/Career/Career-Resources/Recommended-Guidelines-for-Interviews-for-Academic-Positions

MLA page for job candidates
www.mla.org/jil_jobseekers_che
www.mla.org/Resources/Career/Career-Resources/Checklist-for-Job-Seekers

The MLA Job Information List
www.mla.org/jil
www.mla.org/Resources/Career/Job-List

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
phd-survey.org/report%20final.pdf


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