Logan Anderson - ENGL6401-50

  As we begin to draw closer to having to put rubber to the road, I have had the chance to really consider the angle I want to take in my thesis. I know that my thesis will be on the linguistics of transitioning veterans but the direction is a little less fleshed out. I have compiled articles below of the different approaches I think would be effective, but I am still not really certain of just how I want to approach the actual research component of my project yet. I think there is value in showing the correlations that can be drawn between foreign exchange students and military students by showing the level of “Code Switching” taking place or through an analysis using multiple literacies theory. Overall, still have a lot of details I need to finalize before I can really set on any one direction. My (tentative) 10 sources: 1.        1 .  Becoming a better military writer by Todd Greg Airpower Journal   This article describes how a members deploym...

 As I began to reflect on what possible topics I could research, I kept coming back to what I would like to do my thesis on. The topic that interests me is on the linguistics of transitioning military members from active duty to the academic realm and how prepared (or really unprepared) they feel when entering academia. I've been thinking more and more how I will approach this subject and the best way to accumulate data to best write my final product. I think in this pursuit, I will be working mostly with qualitative research data collected from veterans both on and off campus.  I also would like to further a goal with research with working with the school system but that's a bit harder considering the students are minors. I know there is potential still with working with the staff and faculty, I would just need to think what that would look like some more.