Rhetory.com

Schaw thy endite reprufe of rethoryis
 (Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld,
Poetical Works, 1501, p. 6, l. 4)
Sandra Gollin Kies Sandra Kies
Professor Emerita
College of Liberal Arts
Department of Languages & Literature
Benedictine University
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Daniel Kies Daniel Kies
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
College of DuPage
papyr.com
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Welcome, guest. Rhetory.com supplements our research at College of DuPage and Benedictine University. We have been studying writing, particularly writing on screens (new literacy, e-literacy) since the 1980s.

2023

Word order choices and their effects on meaning

The meaning potential of word order

The major principles of syntax

Lexicon, Morphology, & Word Order

Evaluating grammar checkers

A longitudinal, comparative study from 1993 (Word 6 and WordPerfect 6) to 2023 (Microsoft Editor, LanguageTool 6.0, and ChatGPT)

2022

ICELT Conference

University of Social Sciences and Humanities

September 30, 2022
Ho Chi Minh City,  Vietnam

2021

Using jsSyntaxTree

Presentation, 31 August 2021. Benedictine University.

Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) 2021

Conference presentation, 9 April 2021, online.

Writing Research across Borders V (WRAB V)

Conference presentation, 5 March 2021, online.

2020

Published Writing Advice: Take with a Grain of Salt?

Presentation, 17 November 2020, Benedictine University Faculty Colloquium.

Corpus research & your presentations

Presentation, August 2020, Benedictine University.

Grammar and usage: Language judgments & language science

Presentation, August 2020, Benedictine University.

2019

Language for Specific Purposes

Presentation, 29 March 2019, Benedictine University Faculty Colloquium.

Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) 2019

Conference presentation, 12 March 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2018

Transitivity, agency, and Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presentation, 26 March 2018, Benedictine University.

Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) 2018 Workshop

Workshop, 14 March 2018, Kansas City, Missouri. Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Teaching and Studying Writing

Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) 2018

Conference presentations, 16 March 2018, Kansas City, Missouri.

2017

Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) 2017 Workshop

Workshop, 17 March 2017, Portland, Oregon. What Linguistics Can Offer the Composition Teacher

2016

AAAL 2016: the American Association of Applied Linguistics

Conference presentations, 11 April 2016, Orlando, Florida

Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) 2016

Sandra's, Daniel's, and Cameron Mozafari's workshop for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 5 April 2016, Houston, Texas.

International Conference of English Language Teaching (ICELT) 2016

Keynote, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, October 21, 2016

2015

Ho Chi Minh City TESOL Association

Keynote address, 4 April 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Conference on College Composition & Communication 2015

Conference presentations, 21 March 2015, Tampa, Florida

2014

AILA 2014: 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics

Conference presentation, 12 August 2014, Brisbane, Australia

Writing Research across Borders III (WRAB 3) and
Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) 2014

Conference presentations, 19 February 2014, Paris, France 20 March 2014, Indianapolis

2011

AILA 2011: 16th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics

Conference presentation, 24 August 2011, Beijing, China

2010

The VI Associação de Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional da América Latina (ALSFAL)

Conference presentation, 7 October 2010, Fortaleza, Brazil

2002

APIRS Conference at PUCRS

Workshop, 11-13 July 2002, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

Moscow City Pedagogical University International TESOL-ELT Conference

Plenary lecture, 6 May 2002, Samara, Russia

1994

The Twentieth LACUS Forum

Published in The Twentieth LACUS Forum 1993, Lake Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press, 1994, pp. 315-332

The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar

Fifth Annual Conference, Normal, IL, August 13, 1994

1993

Evaluating grammar checkers

A longitudinal, comparative study from 1993 (Word 6 and WordPerfect 6) to 2023 (Word 2021, WordPerfect 2021, Microsoft Editor, LanguageTool 6.0, and LanguageTool Editor)

1992

The uses of passivity: Suppressing agency in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Published in Advances in Systemic Linguistics (Martin Davies and Louise Ravelli, eds.), London: Frances Pinter, 1992, pp. 229-250

1991

Language development in children

A chapter for Language sciences, 1991

1990

Seventeenth International Systemic Congress

University of Stirling, Scotland, July 3-7, 1990

Indeterminacy in sentence structure

Published in Linguistics and Education 2, pp. 231-258

1986

Thirteenth International Systemic Congress

Canterbury, England, July 17, 1986

1985

Some stylistic features of business and technical writing: The functions of passive voice, nominalization, and agency

Published in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 15(4), 299–308