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Guidelines for Essay 1 (Due Feb. 14, Tue)

• You will choose a topic among the ones that will have been covered in class by Week 4, and write a 3-5 pages double-spaced typewritten essay. The possbile topics are:
  • General issues on the relation between language and culture/society
  • Writing system: its linguistic and cultural impacts and implications
  • Practices and attitudes about loan words or foreign elements in your language
  • Color terms and their cultural implications
  • Kinship terms
  
  
  
• Submit both a hard copy (in class) and an electronic file (saved as MSWord document and sent through e-mail via attachment).



• The essay should present your own crtical thinking and analysis rather than a report from other people's writing or a summary of the lecture material.



• Keep in mind that you address issues from the two perspectives, a universal or cross-cultural perspective and a culture-specific perspective.



• Support your ideas/discussion with specific examples of language use/practices.



• Use whatever sources and resources you can get. Make sure you cite your sources properly.



• The essay shoud address the following:
  • General issues you are going to deal with
  • Previous analyses or general assumptions made about the issues you are dealing with
  • Specify specifically what phenomena you will be looking at.
  • Present your critical thinking or analysis, with specific examples of language use or practices in the language and culture you are dealing with.
  • If your subject language is not Korean, compare your language with Korean.
  • Cultural and/or social implications of your finding/analysis