Staples talk at Lancaster U
Crow researcher Shelley Staples will be presenting “Using multidimensional analysis for language assessment” at Lancaster University on March 7, 2019.
Corpus and Repository of Writing
Crowbird Spotlight: Michelle McMullin
Purdue Crowbird Michelle McMullin loves research, teaching, and podcasts—and finding all the interesting ways they overlap.
Crowbird Spotlight: Ashley Velázquez
Spotlighting Purdue Crowbird Ashley Velázquez, a doctoral candidate and AAUW dissertation fellow who has worked with Crow on corpus building, recruitment, grant writing, and more.
2018 AACL conference presentations
Crowbirds presented two projects at the 14th American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL): “Annotating learner data for lexico-grammatical patterns: A comparison of software tools” and “Lexico-grammatical Patterns in First Year Writing across L1 Backgrounds,” Our first presentation compared the uses and performance of Biber tagger, MALT parser, and Stanford parser. Our second presentation analyzed the linguistic features of L1 writers compared to L2 writers.
Symposium Recap: Session Highlights
More reflection on our symposium: Sharing a few observations about every session.
Reflecting on the symposium: Our plenary speakers
Reflecting on the Symposium: Summaries of our plenaries, Dr. Shondel Nero and Dr. Susan Conrad, with some participants’ tweets adding images and context.
Thank you, symposium participants!
Thanks, everyone, for a great symposium! #wrww18
Symposium updates
Updates, details, and logistics regarding the Writing Research Without Walls symposium #wrww18
Meet Our New Undergraduate Researchers, Emily & Sarah!
The Crow team is growing! Our team at Purdue has started off the school year with two new undergraduate researchers, Emily Jones and Sarah Merryman.
Article: Corpus-informed instruction of reporting verbs
Crow team members publish “Examining the Effectiveness of Corpus-Informed Instruction of Reporting Verbs in L2 First-Year College Writing” in L2 Journal 10.3.