[…] While completing his PhD in second language studies at Purdue University, Dr. Lan played a key role in the development of Crow’s corpus, working on corpus cleaning and processing for Purdue’s data. Now, Dr. Ge Lan is building his own corpus using discipline-specific student writing from City University of Hong Kong. With already 1,000 student-consent forms signed, Ge is excited to begin the data collection and cleaning process. …