<div dir="ltr"><p class="" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;clear:both"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(52,52,52);font-family:'Times New Roman'">Want to make a difference with your work beyond your undergraduate transcript?</span><br></p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(52,52,52)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(52,52,52)">Submit to SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest<i>!</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(52,52,52)">Selected winner will be awarded $500, a certificate of accomplishment, and a $300 travel grant to the AAA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, November 18-22, 2015.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(52,52,52);font-family:'Times New Roman'">The paper will be considered for publication in SLA’s signature journal, </span></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(52,52,52)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><i>Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.</i></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(52,52,52)">Submit an original sole-author work based on your own research while in an undergraduate degree-granting program. Submissions must be submitted no more than 2 years since written and never have been published or submitted for publication.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(52,52,52)">Essays will be judged on the basis of clarity, good organization, relevant literature, and that make a substantive contribution to the field of linguistic anthropology.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(52,52,52)">Limit 25 double-spaced pages. Include a cover sheet with <u>title of the paper</u>; the <u>author’s name</u>; the <u>author’s email address</u>; the <u>author’s college or university affiliation</u>; and the name of the <u>faculty advisor</u> to the paper. </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><b>DEADLINE: September 2, 2015</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Send to <a href="mailto:jljackson@anthro.ucla.edu">jljackson@anthro.ucla.edu</a> as a .doc or .pdf with your last name in the filename</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman'">WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR SUBMISSION!!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical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