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 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)
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