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Constructive Distributed Work: One Page
Download a printable version of this one-pager. The Crow team is building digital tools to aid the study and teaching of writing. Because we serve diverse constituencies, we are building an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional community of researchers, developers, and teachers who actively contribute to our project. We call our approach to collaboration constructive distributed work, recognizing…
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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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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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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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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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About the Repository
The Crow platform includes a learner corpus of texts collected from writing courses at multiple universities. In some cases, these texts are linked to a repository of teaching materials also gathered from these classes. This unique innovation allows researchers to systematically explore how teaching practices and artifacts influence student writing. Texts in the repository are…
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Crow at Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH)
We’re very glad to be participating in the Association for Computers in the Humanities virtual conference (ACH 2023). Shelley Staples, Ola Swatek, and Bradley Dilger have two online events. Links below are available to those who have registered for the conference. Both of those times are EDT (UTC–4); links allow adjusting for your time zone. …
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Crow 2022 Rebranding Report
Purpose of Rebranding Crow, the Corpus & Repository of Writing, is a web-based archive with a focus on applied linguistics and rhetoric & composition to aid research and professional development. Crow began in Fall 2015 at Purdue University and has since expanded to institutions internationally. With the increase of social media presence and Crow’s interest…
