Initiatives and Projects
Online course in advanced speaking for international teaching assistants
- ELO course development, Engineering-LAS Development Grant (2019)
Developing genre models for job application materials: Cover Letter and Teaching Phylosophy
- Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (2016-2018)
Analysis of global and local aspects of writing in ISU theses and dissertations
- Graduate College (2017)
Advanced writing support with new technology
- Computation Advisory Committee, Senior Vice President and Provost (2017)
An interdisciplinary approach to developing an automated functional language extraction (AFLEX) system to transform the translation of STEM research to society
- Presidential Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research in Data Driven Science (2015-2018)
Validating the interpretation of TOEFL iBT® speaking scores for ITA screening and certification purposes
- TOEFL® Committee of Examiners 2015 Research Program, Educational Testing Service (2015-2017)
The Research Writing Tutor
- Computation Advisory Committee, Senior Vice President and Provost, Graduate College, College of Engineering, College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences (2010-14)
Language of writing in STEM disciplines
- Presidential Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research (2013-2014)
The grant writing challenge: Broader Impacts text analysis
- Strengthening the Professoriate at ISU (2012-2013)
Enhancing opportunities for English pronunciation practice and improvement
- Computation Advisory Committee, Senior Vice President and Provost (2011)
Helping international students develop effective oral English communication skills
- Computation Advisory Committee, Senior Vice President and Provost (2010)
Student Research
Graduate Peer Mentor Program: Exploring forms of disciplinary-specific writing support
- Jiaqi Yu and Nadia Jaramillo, CELT Teaching-as-Research grant (2016-2017)
Scholarly writing stress and the effectiveness of trained graduate peer tutors
- Jenny Phan, CELT Teaching-as-Research grant (2015-2016)
Argument-based approach to the validation of the OECT in support of R-Plat
- Hyejin Yang, Dissertation (2017)
Exploring learner perceptions of and behaviors using RWT
- Sarah Huffman, Dissertation (2015)
Automated analysis of learner’s research article writing and feedback generation through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
- Deepan Prabhu Babu, Thesis (2013)
Online tutor for research writing
- Nandhini Ramaswamy, Thesis (2012)