Publications
- "Evaluating Grammar Checkers: A Comparative
Ten-Year Study," The 6th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and
Applications: EISTA 2008 Conference Proceedings, forthcoming 2008.
- Teaching with New Media, an online faculty development course in preparation for Waubonsee Community
College's Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. Completion date
July 30, 2000.
- Composition Online: A First Year Composition Course via the Internet, Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace,
1999. Sample chapters available online at my web site (http://papyr.com/hbp).
- "Disadvantaging the Disadvantaged?" ASCILITE 99 Conference
Proceedings: Responding to Diversity, (Jenny Winn, ed.), Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology, 1999, pp.
111-124. Presented originally at the ASCILITE 99 Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia,
December 6, 1999.
- "I See What You Mean: The Theoretical Consequences of Blurring the Distinction between Speech and
Writing," to appear in Creating Sense: Texts and Realities, Oxford University Press, 1999, presented
originally at the conference of the same name at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 8, 1998.
- "Grammar, Fear, and Loathing" Syntax in the Schools, 14 (1997), 1-3.
- "A Review of Wired Style: Principles of English
Usage in the Digital Age," Newsletter of the American Dialect Society, April 1997.
- "On Grammar, Writing Style, and Writing Assessment: A Look at the Grammatical Choices Made within
Standardized and Computer Adaptive Testing," in National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for the Teaching
of English Grammar (Ed.), Partial proceedings of the 5th annual conference of the Assembly for the Teaching of
English Grammar (Normal, IL, August 12-13, 1994); ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 397 435.
- "Adverbial but," in
The Twentieth LACUS Forum 1993, Lake Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press, 1994, pp. 315-332. Presented at the twentieth
LACUS Forum, Chicago, July 24, 1993.
- "Lexico-grammar," in Introduction to Linguistics (Fred C. C. Peng, ed.), to appear.
- "Language Development in Children,"
in Introduction to Linguistics (Fred C. C. Peng, ed.), to appear.
- "A Review of The Registers of Written English edited by Mohsen Ghadessay," Network,
December 1993.
- "The Uses of Passivity: Suppressing Agency
in Nineteen Eighty-Four," in Advances in Systemic Linguistics (Martin Davies and Louise Ravelli, eds.),
London: Frances Pinter, 1992, pp. 229-250. Presented at the seventeenth International Systemic Congress, Sterling,
Scotland, July 5, 1990.
- "Fourteen Types of Passivity: Suppressing Agency in Nineteen Eighty-Four," in The Revised
Orwell (Jonathan Rose, ed.), East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1991, pp. 47-60.
- "Indeterminacy in Sentence
Structure," Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal 2 (1990), 231-258. Presented
at the Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, March 21, 1987.
- "A Review of The Linguistic
Spectrum by V. Prakasam," Network December 1990.
- "Marked Themes with and without Pronominal Reinforcement: Their Meaning and Distribution in
Discourse," in Pragmatics, Discourse & Text: Some Linguistic Approaches (Robert Veltman and Erich
Steiner, eds.), London: Frances Pinter, 1988, pp. 47-75. Presented at the Thirteenth International Systemic Congress,
Canterbury, England, July 16, 1986.
- "Gradience in English Grammar," in The Thirteenth LACUS Forum 1986 (Ilah Fleming, ed.), Lake
Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press, 1987, pp. 199-207. Presented at the thirteenth annual LACUS Forum, Arlington, Texas, August
15, 1986.
- "Some Stylistic Features of Business and Technical Writing: The Functions of Passive Voice,
Nominalization, and Agency," The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 15 (1985), 299-308.
- "A
Functional Linguistic View of Language Development," Proceedings of the Midwest Writing Centers
Association, 1985, pp. 1-15. Also published by ERIC, 1986, document number ED 266 462. Presented at the
Association's annual conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 18, 1985.
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