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The handouts below are what I wrote up for a research seminar that I taught at the University of Georgia in Spring 2008. During my graduate training at UMass, I was very fortunate to get explicit training on how to establish yourself in the field. I plan to revise the handouts in the future, but since I get asked for those handouts some time, I make them available here:

How to find research topics

Some tips for writing

How to write a good conference abstract

How to write and handle journal reviews

Preparing your CV

Being on a job market

Other handouts that may be useful for general audience:

A brief introduction to Praat

Praat scripting for dummies

A summary page listing resources for graduation school applications (speech pathology schools).

Here is a guide for applying for graduate schools

Here is a guide for Preparing for speech pathology schools (while you're at Rutgers.)

If you're a Rutgers student and interested in pursuing a speech pathology-related career, we now have a facebook group.

Please read this before contacting me.

If you have questions about undergraduate classes, please use kawahara.teaching_at_gmail.com

If you would like to make an appointment, please let me know at least three days in advance. (I.e., "can we meet some time tomorrow?" doesn't usually work.

I would be happy to write a recommendation letter for you, but I need to know you well to write a letter. Please try to talk to me as much as possible. Taking more than one class, or working with me as an undergraduate research assistant, gives me a good idea of what to write in a letter. In principle, you need to satisfy either of these conditions to get a letter from me.

When it comes to letter-writing, you'd also need to make an appointment with me, and at that occasion, I ask you to give me your application packet, including your CV and personal statement.

At the phonetics lab I run, many undergraduate students work on projects with our lab members. I really enjoy these opportunities, and if you're thinking of going to graduate school (linguistics or speech pathology), you should consider doing it. Here are some results of their efforts. My goal has been that our research assistants have a real presentation experience before they graduate from my lab.

WCCFL poster (2011) by Kelly Garvey on perceptibility of place contrasts.

PCL slides (2011) by Kelly Garvey on perceptibility of place contrasts.

Aresty poster (2011) by Audrey Krum et al on the perception of duration.

FAJL slides (2010) by Sophia Kao 2010 on Japanese accents.

Aresty poster (2010) by Natalie Blanc et al. on French intonation.

Aresty poster (2010) by Kelly Garvey on similarity effects.

Aresty poster (2010) by Lara Greenberg on child speech.

Aresty poster (2010) by Sophia Kao 2010 on Japanese accents.

Please contact me if you're interested in working for the lab. I encourage you to take advantage of the Aresty program for your research opportunities at Rutgers as well.

Here are some pictures of our lab students presenting their projects:

Rutgers

A graduate phonetics seminar

A graduate seminar on experimental linguistics

A graduate introduction to phonetics

A graduate advanced phonology

An undergraduate introduction to phonetics

An undergraduate practicum course on experimental linguistics

An undergraduate introduction to linguistics

University of Georgia

A graduate seminar (advanced phonetics & phonology, plus research skills)

A graduate introduction to phonetics

A graduate introduction to phonology

UMass, Amherst

The Structure of Japanese

An introduction to linguistics