23.1.2002: Project work

The following checklist is intended to help you organise your project work efficiently. It is your own responsibility, of course, to decide on a topic and fill in the details on the basis of consultation within your group and where necessary advice from tutor / lecturer.

Project planning:

1. Task specification:
   • What is the project intended to produce?
   • What topic will you investigate?
   • What form will your results take?
   • What resources (information sources, data, programmes) will you need?
   • What media will you need for presenting the results?
   Possible content will include:
   • Making a detailed illustrated lexicon of terms from a selected area, with audio and graphical illustrations.
   • Analysing speech signals using Praat.
   • areas like English dialects, contrastive study of selected German and English pronunciation problems, applications of phonetics and phonology in clinical linguistics, speech technology, ...
2. Task design:
   • List of individual tasks
   • Timetable (time line, time chart)
   • Division of labour within the group
3. Task implementation:
   • Outline of document content and structure according to task
   • Empirical phonetic work on data
   • Descriptive phonological work on data (phonemes, rules, prosodic structures)
   • Production of document reporting on results
   • Formulation of introduction and conclusion
4. Task evaluation:
   • Self evaluation: proof-reading, check logic of argumentation
   • Other evaluation:
     • advice from peers (co-members of group, etc.)
     • advice from supervisor
     • grading by supervisor

Also check the hints on my teaching web page.