[Linganth] SLA 2016 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest

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*[image: Inline image 1]**Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2016
Undergraduate Student Essay Contest**Deadline:   June 30, 2016**Calling all
linguistic anthropology undergraduates! *

*Do you have a stellar research paper that you would like to share with the
wider professional community of linguistic anthropologists?*

*Submit to SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest!*

*Every year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) confers an award
for a distinguished undergraduate research paper.  *Selected winner will be
awarded $500, a certificate of accomplishment, and a $300 travel grant to
the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, November 16-20, 2016.  In addition,
the winning essay will be considered for publication in our signature
journal,*Journal of Linguistic Anthropology*.  Essays will be judged on the
basis of research contributions to the field of linguistic anthropology,
clarity, organization, and engagement with existing scholarship.  If this
sounds like a paper you have, and it has been written within the last two
years, and has not previously been published, then considering submitting
your essay to the SLA contest!
*D**eadline June 30, 2016*.

Specific guidelines are below:

*Guidelines**:*

   - 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 they were
   written.
   - Submissions cannot be previously published or currently under
   review/submitted for publication elsewhere.
   - Submit one document only.
   - Maximum 25 double-spaced pages
   - The first page of your essay should have this information:
   - Title of the paper
   - Author’s name
   - Author’s email address
   - Author’s college or university when the paper was written
   - The date that the paper was written
   - The course that the paper was written for (if it was written for a
   course)
   - Name of the faculty instructor/advisor for the paper
   - Author’s undergraduate degree and date of degree
   - Author’s current university, college, and/or place of employment

*Deadline:  June 30, 2016**Submit to:  *slacontest2016ug at gmail.com



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