Freie Universität Berlin

Institut für Englische Philologie

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Table of Contents

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Bibliography	3

Statement of academic honesty	4

Heading 1: Introduction (these headlines update automatically, don’t type them into the ToC!)

The introduction should be brief and come to the point immediately. No commonplaces to get you started, please!

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Say what your research objective is and what the paper is going to do.

Heading 1: Literature review

Summarize the relevant literature on the topic. You should mention about ten recent scholarly articles. But don’t collect random information, and don’t simply list papers, but mention ideas or concepts that you are going to need for your own research objective as stated in the introduction (with proper citation giving author, year and pages – see stylesheet). The ideas you adopt from others could be theoretical concepts you are going to refer to (what is a construction, what is synonymy/polysemy, what do we mean when we speak of distribution, what is usage-based linguistics, etc. etc.) or methodological ideas (how to investigate polysemy, how to measure collocation, how to find metaphors in a corpus, how to find evidence on the meanings of grammatical constructions, etc. etc.). Make sure that you use reputable linguistic sources.

Heading 1: Research report

Heading 2: Data and method of data analysis

Be brief! Say what you did, but don’t include cqp-specific details. No code, please! Make it comprehensible to all.

Findings

State your results, and don’t forget to offer your interpretation of these results! You can do that in a separate chapter or after each finding. If you need to report numbers, think about whether a table or a diagram is most reader-friendly. In either case, don’t forget to tell us what the significance of your results is! You get points for your linguistic analysis and interpretation, not for computer skills, though you may need those to elicit the necessary data.

Table 1: What this table shows

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Table 1 shows that…

Figure 1: What this figure shows

In Figure 1 we see that…

And don’t forget to complement any quantitative analysis with a qualitative one: Discuss individual examples from your database to illustrate the points made.

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Heading 1: Conclusions

Einstein says: “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” In this chapter, explain the significance of your results in such a way that your grandmother (had she been to “Introduction to Linguistics”) would understand.

Bibliography

Aitchison, Jean. 1987. Title. Place of publication: Publisher.

Bybee, Joan. …

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Statement of academic honesty

[your name] [Matrikelnummer]

Declaration

concerning the examination for [Module], [24S, 173_ _, seminar title]

I hereby declare

that I am the sole author of this seminar paper, and that the text contains no passages authored by other human beings or artificial intelligences except those explicitly marked as quotations,

that I have used no resources or aids other than the ones explicitly deemed permissible beforehand or explicitly cited in my text,

that I have properly marked all ideas and/or passages taken from the works of others (including internet sources) as quotations and transparently cited their respective sources

that I have not submitted this paper or substantial portions of it for any other examination and will not do so in the future.

I understand

that I have failed this examination if I do not meet the deadline communicated to me in advance,

that I have failed this examination if I cheat or attempt to cheat,

that serious deception may lead to my failing the entire module and may mean that I will not be allowed to continue studying this subject or discipline at German universities.

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