Collaborative+Study+Guide--How+to

Collaborative Study Guide: 5 entries per unit; 20 points per unit (40% total of grade). Due weekly (see Calendar below)

Students will annotate 5 concepts per unit (2-3 units per week) on the wiki study guide. Annotations will include a definition (your own, a paraphrase or a quotation) and a text-to-self connection, text-to-text connection or a text-to-world connection. The best entries will include an example, and may include a relevant link to media, e.g., a video, a song, a poem. Connections may also be provided in the form of a metaphor, a graphic organizer, an image. Minimally, annotations will be a brief definition and one of the connections listed above (text-to-self connection, text-to-text connection or a text-to-world connection). Be sure to cite the source/s of the definition and examples if they come from somewhere other than your own personal experience/knowledge. Use APA citation conventions (use the Purdue Online Writing Center (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/) or lose credit uh oh! Terms need to be considered within the context of linguistics, as described in Rowe and Levine, not in the everyday sense of the word. Students may choose which five concepts per unit to annotate; more than one student may annotate the same concept. Remember, however, that all concepts listed are fair game for the quiz: study all. This is a collaborative effort: the more concepts that are annotated in the study guide, the smarter everyone is. If twelve people annotate the same concept, the learning value of the study guide will be reduced. Be sure to attach your name and the date to your Study Guide entries.

Example of a Collaborative Study Guide entry (also shown on Module 1 Unit 1 page):

Ethnocentrism (Rowe and Levine, Chapter 1) Linguistic enthnocentrism means believing that one’s own cultural speech style is the best and that others are inferior. For example, as a young child, I was sent to speech therapy because I pronounced ‘wash’ as ‘warsh’; my mother grew up in Appalachia and I learned to pronounce ‘wash’ this way from her. Apparently, at that time, in western New York schools, this dialect was considered pathological, and this is an example of linguistic ethnocentrism. The following youtube excerpt from the video //American Tongues// shows a variety of speakers exhibiting linguistic ethnocentrism vis-a-vis several U.S. dialects, excerpted from Kolker, A. and Louis Alvarez. (1986). //American Tongues.// NY: Center for New American Media. [] By: Kathleen McInerney 5/31

The entry above would earn the full four points for annotating the concept with a definition, a text-to- ? (in this case a text-to-self) connection, providing an annotated, relevant media link and including a correct APA citation (as if on a reference list).

Collaborative Study Guide checklist for each concept chosen:

Technology guides: 1) Use the tutorial below to understand how wikis work 2) Click [|this link] to take short tours of how to add files, images, etc. Watch: Introduction Files and Pictures Embed Widgets 3) Remember, Edit Save Edit Save Edit Save! Also, when you edit, your font will appear large and strange. Don't worry. Click Preview. Or click Save and look at what you've done and it will appear normal. Click Edit to continue Editing.
 * Definition || 1 pt ||
 * Example || 1 pt ||
 * Media link or file || 1 pt ||
 * APA citation (as if on a reference list) || 1 pt ||

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Unit 1: The Nature of Communication Unit 2: Phonetics Study guide concepts must be added to the wiki page Unit 1 The Nature of Communication and Unit 2 Phonetics by midnight, June 6. All other readings and written work required and the quiz (on BlackBoard ) above must be completed by midnight June 7.

Module 2: June 7-June 13 Unit 1: Phonology Unit 2: Morphology Study guide concepts must be added to the wiki by midnight, June 12. All other readings and written work required and the quiz (on BlackBoard ) above must be completed by midnight June 13.

Module 3: June 14-June 20 Unit 1: Syntax Unit 2: Semantics and Pragmatics Study guide concepts must be added to the wiki by midnight, June 13. All other readings and written work required and the quiz (on BlackBoard ) above must be completed by midnight June 14.

Module 4: June 21-June 27 Unit 1: Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology Unit 2: Language Acquisition Unit 3: Sign Language Study guide concepts must be added to the wiki by midnight, June 20. All other readings and written work required and the quiz (on BlackBoard ) above must be completed by midnight June 21.

Module 5: June 28-July 5 Unit 1: Nonverbal Communication Unit 2: Historical Linguistics Study guide concepts must be added to the wiki by midnight, July 4. All other readings and written work required and the quiz (on BlackBoard ) above must be completed by midnight July 5.