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Dr. Shelley Staples takes Crow to Brazil
Instead of silence, language fills the air. Words upon words topple out of people’s mouths in an attempt to reach out. A way to overcome distance, slowly bridging the gap between culture and identity to grow and deepen understanding. It’s this idea that fuels the Regional English Language Office (RELO) programs, funded by the US…
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Happy 10th Birthday to writecrow.org 🎉
Ten years ago this week, writecrow.org hatched onto the internet! When founding Crowbird Dr. Bradley Dilger clicked “Publish” on March 23, 2016, he never knew how high the Crow (Corpus & Repository Of Writing) project would fly. And fly, it has. Our website has risen to new heights since that day, and we want to…
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Crow & MACAWS Corpora Offline Training
To use our online corpus, complete the training below. First, watch this video, “Using Crow and MACAWS Offline Corpora.” Second, take this quiz via Purdue Qualtrics. Once you complete the quiz successfully, Crow administrators will be notified, and will process your request. We welcome your questions about our corpora. Contact us any time.
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Dr. Ge Lan and Hailey Jie Yang Present at the 2026 Crow Symposium
This is the first post highlighting information from our Crow Symposium. For the second post, please navigate here! On January 31, the annual 2026 Crow Symposium showcased two excellent ongoing research projects from Crowbirds Dr. Hadi Banat and the team of Dr. Ge Lan and Hailey Jie Yang. Alongside them, nine other Crowbirds roosted together…
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Crow Spotlight: Dr. Jessica Ketcham
Jessica, one of our 2025 Crow fellows, is a full professor and the Writing Center Faculty Lead at Cascadia College, a liberal arts community college co-located with the University of Washington Bothell (UW Bothell) campus. Jessica first learned about Crow from one of her colleagues at UW Bothell years ago and then became reintroduced to…
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Find Crow at CCCC 2026
March 4–7, 2026 — Mark it on your calendar! Many of our Crowbirds are flocking to Cleveland, Ohio for the 2026 CCCC Annual Convention, Conferences and our Conversations. We are thrilled to be leading several poster sessions, panels, and presentations across the span of this convention. If you’re interested in knowing who will be doing…
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An Under The Plumage Update
That’s right — the Crow website is becoming just as pretty on the inside as it is on the outside! Or should it be frontend and backend? Either way, we’ve been revamping the infrastructure of our website, and we wish to share our progress with you. In December 2024, Crowbirds Sarah Buwick and Dr. Aleksandra…
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Dr. Shelley Staples Travels to Washington (Virtually)
Earlier this year, when spring was in full bloom, Dr. Shelley Staples (The University of Arizona) helped run a Crow workshop at Cascadia College. Its campus, which sits just outside the Seattle area in Washington, hosted the workshop online. Through the gracious funding from the National Council of Teachers of English’s Conference on College Composition…
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Crow Spotlight: Adrienne Henson
Congratulations are in order! One of the Crow team’s undergraduate research assistants, Adrienne Henson, will be graduating from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in December 2025. With her Bachelor’s of Arts in English in one hand—and minor in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication in the other—she intends to enter the workforce to pursue writing-centric career…
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APPLAWS, Spring 2025
With another academic year coming to an end, we wanted to highlight the achievements of our incredible Crowbirds. Take a look at the interactive slideshow below to learn more about the work we’ve completed this semester! APPLAWS Spring 2025 by Sarah Buwick Thank you to Dilara Avci, Sarah Buwick, Bradley Dilger, Gözde Durgut, Larissa Goulart,…
