The topic of my Bachelor of Arts paper/thesis is “Subsidiary Variants of English Phonemes: Realization in Actual Speech”.
The contents of the thesis should concern pronunciation of English allophones by English speaking Russians.
The thesis MUST be written in correct English.
The Literature review (theoretical part) and the research results (research description part) should be related.
There should be no in-text references (quotations, paraphrases, and summaries) in the research results section (research description part). In other words, the research results section should contain only your ideas (findings) written in your own words.
If you are quoting a book or an article with pages, you must always indicate the page number you are quoting from. It is better to quote / refer to specialized sources, i.e. books, studies on phonetics / phonology / linguistics rather than general reference books such as encyclopaedias. If you quote or refer, you need to indicate the page number, unless you refer to the entire book.
If you are summarizing, in the summary’s first sentence you must indicate the author, the date of the author’s publication, and page number. The end of the summary is marked by (ibid.). For example (DO NOT USE THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT IN THE THESIS):
The work by Maye, Werker, and Gerken (2002,45) shows that babies just a few months old can have their perceptions of allophonic contrasts changed by being exposed to distributions (mono-modal or bimodal) of the allophones of the English phonemes [d] and [t], the latter as unaspirated and unvoiced, between which can be a continuum of eight tokens in identical steps. Those unique contrasts had been taken into consideration due to the fact they no longer constitue a phonemic comparison in English and are each perceived as members of the /d/ category when in primary phrase function. After exposure, the toddlers in the bimodal group presented better results than those in the mono-modal category. All the toddlers had developed the ability to split sounds into categories. These findings suggest that babies in these age cohorts are in reality sensitive to statistical distributions in the input. It means that one can surmise that they are using this mechanism in the first year of life, and can use the distribution-based approach to learn phonetic rules with no lexicon (ibid.).
Do not attempt to sneak in plagiarism because I have my ways of finding it.
Structural requirements:
1.1 The title page – 1 page.
1.2. The contents page – 1 page.
1.3. The abstract – 1 page (up to 200 words).
2. The introduction – 3 pages:
2.1. The problem statement.
2.2. The aim of the research.
2.3. The objectives of the research.
2.4. Hypothesis / research question(s)
2.4. Research methods and procedures.
2.5. The scope of the research.
2.6. Relevance of the research and significance of the results.
3. The literature review (theoretical part) – 17 pages.
4. The research results (research description part) – 23 pages.
5. The conclusions – 1 page.
6. The supporting materials:
7.1. The list of references.
7.2. The appendices (if necessary).
So the pages should be arranged into something like this:
1 (abstract) + 3 (introduction) + 17 (literature review) + 23 (research results) + 1 (conclusions) = 45 pages
Read thoroughly the booklet and additional requirements that I have attached and follow their guidelines on how to write a thesis, since I will consult them when reviewing the thesis.