Universität Erfurt – BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik Seminar: Lecturer: Winter / Summer Term 201X Title of Term Paper Name Student ID number: E-mail address: English and American Studies: major / minor subject Other subject: Course module and no of credit points: Date of submission: Table of Contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3 2. Literature Review...................................................................................................... 4 3. Methodology ............................................................................................................ 5 4. Results and Discussion .............................................................................................. 6 5. Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 7 6. References ................................................................................................................ 8 Confirmation of Authorship.......................................................................................... 9 —1— 1. Introduction State the topic of your term paper and explain why it is worth investigating. Then define your research question(s) as precisely as you can. Finish up with a very brief preview (route map) indicating the overall structure of your term paper. —2— 2. Literature Review In your paper, you should develop a deeper understanding of the field that goes beyond what you have learnt in class. You should present a clear argument of your own and not just summarise previous work. You should invest the same amount of work into your term paper as you did into the whole course. Any academic paper must be clearly structured. Ensure that your argument can be easily followed by your readers. This can be achieved by going from the general to the specific and by using subheadings. —3— 3. Methodology If working with empirical data, you need to provide your readers with detailed information on your data and your participants (if there are any). As in the previous section, you should use subheadings here to make your assignment more readerfriendly. Assign the template (Formatvorlage) “Überschrift 2” to the headings of your subsections. These will then be included in the table of contents, when you put your cursor on it and press F9. If your data is elicited, it may be useful to include the following subsections: 3.1 Participants, 3.2 Instrument (questionnaire? interview?), 3.3 Framework and 3.4 Procedure. If you investigate corpus-data, your subsections should outline 3.1 Corpus/Corpora Used and 3.2 Methods of Data Retrieval. If you analyse discourse (texts, conversations, etc.), the following subsections are suggested: 3.1 Data and Context, 3.2 Framework and 3.3 Procedure. If you do not analyse any data, this section should be deleted. —4— 4. Results and Discussion In this chapter, you should present your results and discussion clearly and in detail. Consider using tables and graphs to present your data. Do not forget the label and number these. Make sure that you are as precise as you can be. —5— 5. Conclusion Discuss the results of your paper in relation to its aims, i.e. give an assessment of what has been achieved, what appears problematic and/or what is still left to further research in the light of the overall framework and issues that were presented in the introductory section. —6— 6. References Cameron, D. (2006). Performing Gender Identity: Young Men’s Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity. In A. Jaworski and N. Coupland (eds.), The Discourse Reader. Second Edition. (pp. 419-432). London: Routledge. Coupland, N. (1980). Style-shifting in a Cardiff work-setting. Language in Society 9: 1-12. Finegan, E. (2004). Language – Its Structure and Use. Fourth Edition. Boston: Wadsworth. Ungerer, F. & Schmid, H.-J. (2006). An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Second Edition. Harlow: Pearson Longman. Wells, J. (2006). English accents and their implications for spelling reform. Retrieved September 05, 2011 from http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ accents_spellingreform.htm —7— Confirmation of Authorship Hiermit versichere ich an Eides statt, dass ich die vorliegende Arbeit selbstständig und ohne fremde Hilfe verfasst und keine anderen als die angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel benutzt habe, alle Ausführungen, die anderen Schriften wörtlich oder sinngemäß entnommen wurden, gekennzeichnet sind und die Arbeit in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch kein Bestandteil einer Studien- oder Prüfungsleistung war. Erfurt, den 9. Februar 2016 —8—