Guides

• Study Skills for Linguistics is a book by Jeanette Sakel that gives you overviews of basic concepts in linguistics and walks you through how to do a research project. It also talks about what you can do with your linguistics degree when you graduate.
• OWG's Guide to Writing SOP's for Linguistics Grad Programs is an amazing guide to writing statements of purposes, especially when applying to linguistics grad programs.
• Wiley Guide to Journal Metrics provides a short and precise introduction to journal and article metrics.
• How to Become an Informed Research Consumer is an introductory document that will help you understand concepts like journal impact factors and h-index, citation indexes and what they mean in articles you read to interpret their meaning.
• How to Read a Linguistics Article in 8 Easy Steps
• Guidelines for writing abstracts by Johan Rooryck and Vincent van Heuven provides a very easy to understand step by step guide with important insights for linguistics students who wish to send their works to conferences.
• Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs, pretty self explanatory. It's a guide for making sure that your graphs are good. You probably won't need this before your senior year.
• A LaTeX Tutorial for Linguists. LaTeX is a document markup language (like Markdown) and is used in academic papers and presentations for high quality and precise graphs, syntactic and semantic trees, linguistic glossing etc. This tutorial goes over the basics of LaTeX document formatting and shows you some basic tools that are extremely important for linguistics scholarship.