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


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xviii + 226 pages publication date: June 2025 ISBN 978-1-57473-048-7 paperback, $36.95 ISBN 978-1-57473-248-1 paperback 10-pack, $240.00 paperback: $36.95 paperback 10-pack: $240.00

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This legacy page contains all the website addresses listed in the 1st and 2nd editions of Surviving Linguistics.

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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