Corpus and computational collaboration at CCCC 2017

Today the Crow team presented “Cultivating Writing Research via Corpus and Computational Collaboration,” featuring talks from Lindsey Macdonald, Shelley Staples, Bill Hart-Davidson, and Ryan Omizo:

In March 2017, CCCC will be joined in Portland by AAAL, the conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. We take this opportunity to highlight the value of collaboration between researchers who will be attending one, but likely not both, of these conferences, and unfortunately, crossing paths in few ways. The corpus linguistics methods common in applied linguistics can bring quantitative elements to empirical research in rhetoric and composition, including attention to demographic issues and diverse genres. Rhetorical research, conversely, offers corpus researchers valuable insights into extra-textual features and contextual influences. This panel explores possibilities for collaborative writing research by demonstrating the value of this interdisciplinary work. We offer an overview of the benefits of corpus and computational methods, then present case studies of two projects which integrate computational methods and corpus linguistics with rhetoric and composition. We conclude with a brief panel discussion of takeaways for interdisciplinary collaboration, then invite conversation.

Here’s our session handout.

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