Choose any ONE of the topics listed below, and find THREE quality references about it. You can choose to research the topic in general, or some specific aspect of it, e.g. codes and ciphers used in wartime; or efforts to preserve endangered languages.

The references you select should be from scholarly books, journals or conference proceedings. They should NOT be from commercial or personal websites, Wikipedia, the lecture slides or the unit textbook.

a) For EACH reference:

• Give the full citation details, using a standard referencing style such as APA, Chicago, etc. State which style you are using.

• Write a short (1-2 paragraphs) summary outlining the major points raised in the article.

b) Give a short overall summary of the three references you have described, highlighting points of similarity or difference between them.

c) Suggest a question that could be asked which could advance understanding of the topic. (For example, if your topic had been the Navajo code talkers' secret language, a question might be: "have there been any technological developments that would prevent the strategy of using Navajo as secret code from working nowadays?"

Topics (choose any ONE):

i. Artificial languages
ii. Codes and ciphers
iii. Endangered languages