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Kat's Week 10 Work on Carole Chaski
This is my sandbox, and I'll be working alone on my article here. Krs201 (talk) 17:31, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Update: hadn't realized that there was a second person assigned to the article! We'll be working in this sandbox. Krs201 (talk) 16:04, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

As I had mentioned in my initial source evaluation, there is a paragraph explaining what other linguists and professionals have said about Chaski and her work. The relevance of this section was unclear to me at first, so I aim to make the relevance more clear to other readers. It may be helpful to list titles/positions of the other authors and possibly link to their Wikipedia pages in order to point out that these respondents have relevant experience and can provide credible opinions, praise, and criticism of Chaski's work. Previous contributors only did so in reference to Lawrence Solan's position as former president of the International Association of Forensic Linguists. As an example of an addition, John Olsson's praise is credible and notable due to his 25 years of experience in forensic linguistics and contribution of analysis reports to over 500 cases. The current version of the article does list that Chaski is the current president of ALIAS Technology and executive director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence, but only provides a citation that supports her role as executive director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence. The article therefore requires a citation proving her position as current president of ALIAS technology, which can be found on the company's website. The article also included that she "currently serves on the editorial board of Brief Chronicles, a peer reviewed journal of Shakespearean authorship studies," though the journal is no longer being published. The sentence will be fixed to reflect that she was formerly on the editorial board. While the article does reference Chaski's contributions to the process of "authorship identification," no linked definition is provided for the term or process. The process has been described as "a task of identifying authors of anonymous texts given examples of the writing of authors." There is also no provided link or definition for "markedness," another linguistic term which means "the state of standing out as unusual or divergent in comparison to a more common or regular form." Krs201 (talk) 19:54, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Explain relevance of other linguists' quotes.
 * Current work update.
 * Explaining linguistic terminology.

All work above has been moved over and deleted from here. Krs201 (talk) 16:04, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Kat's Week 11 Work on Carole Chaski
Decided to work on updating her current work first.

As of 2016, Chaski served on the editorial board of Brief Chronicles, a peer reviewed journal of Shakespearean authorship studies. Though The Brief Chronicles is no longer in production, Chaski currently serves as the CEO and President of ALIAS Technology LLC, where she has continued her work in forensic computational linguistics. Additionally, she is a part of ALIAS Technology's "Linguist Support Team for SynAID, Profiler and other modules as cases warrant."

I want to add other evidence beside this as it's all from her website- any advice on where I should look for other sources of her current work, besides academic papers?

Krs201 (talk) 07:50, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Kat's Week 12 Work on Carole Chaski
In addition to the one edited and two added sentences in the above section, I've also been working on re-writing the section below for improved clarity. I found the first two sentences to be a bit complicated in terms of sentence structure, and thought that a couple edits might help.

Chaski has been credited for her research on the reliability of different variables, such as spelling and syntax, in forensic linguists' analysis of discriminants amongst unknown authors. She concluded that many of the frequently measured variables, such as the amount of spelling errors or prescriptive grammar errors in a sample, were not accurate ways of determining authorship or discriminating between suspected authors. Chaski's criticism was based on how the variation within many of these variables is reflective of dialects and not idiolects. Tim Grant and Kevin Baker have criticized Chaski's evaluation of the authorship markers, addressing issues with the reliability and validity of her methods for evaluating each marker. They also draw attention to Chaski's selection of authors, namely because they lack sociolinguistic diversity.

I'm considering taking out the sentence "They also draw attention to Chaski's selection of authors, namely because they lack sociolinguistic diversity," as I'm not quite sure of how it fits with the rest of paragraph, which focuses more on the analysis of certain variables and Grant and Baker's criticism of "the reliability and validity of her methods" rather than other issues. I think it might deserve a separate section if this is a regular criticism of her work, but, in any case, I'm not sure it is quite necessary here.

Krs201 (talk) 05:53, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Kat's Final Edits
After carefully looking over and proofreading my work from the past few weeks, I am moving over the edits I worked on in the above sections. I decided not to take out the sentence "They also draw [...] diversity," as this does indeed seem to be a claim that Grant and Baker have made and is presented as such. Krs201 (talk) 04:14, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Work on Sun-Ah Jun
Work on Sun-ah Jun's page that I have put together but not yet published. Krs201 (talk) 23:54, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Sun-Ah Jun is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing as well as Prosodic Typology II: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing.