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The meaning potential of word order

• Daniel Kies, Word order choices and their effects on meaning

Lexicon, Morphology, & Word Order

• Daniel Kies, The major principles of syntax

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

• Daniel Kies, Evaluating grammar checkers: A longitudinal, comparative study

Presentation, 31 August 2021. Benedictine University.

• Daniel Kies, Using jsSyntaxtree

Conference presentation, 9 April 2021, online.

• Daniel Kies, Prescriptivism and its alternatives

Conference presentation, 5 March 2021, online.

• Sandra Kies, Acquiring a scholar's voice: Vietnamese students mastering academic vocabulary in thesis writing

Presentation, 17 November 2020, Benedictine University Faculty Colloquium.

• Sandra Gollin Kies, Published Writing Advice: Take with a Grain of Salt?

Presentation, August 2020, Benedictine University.

• Daniel Kies, Corpus research & your presentations

Presentation, August 2020, Benedictine University.

• Daniel Kies, Grammar and usage: Language judgments & language science

Presentation, 29 March 2019, Benedictine University Faculty Colloquium.

• Sandra Gollin Kies, Language for Specific Purposes

Conference presentation, 12 March 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• Sandra Gollin Kies, Working with the COCA wordandphrase.info site

Presentation, 26 March 2018, Benedictine University.

• Daniel Kies, Transitivity, agency, and Nineteen Eighty-Four

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

• Sandra Gollin Kies, A demonstration of UAM CorpusTool
• Daniel Kies, A demonstration of AntConc

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

• Sandra Gollin Kies, The importance of developing noun phrases in student writing
• Daniel Kies, Mapping theme in student writing

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

• Sandra Gollin Kies, What can cats tell us about writing across the curriculum?
• Daniel Kies, Two tips using linguistics in the composition classroom

Conference presentations, 11 April 2016, Orlando, Florida

• Sandra Gollin Kies, Specificity in student writer texts: elaboration of the nominal group
• Daniel Kies, Exploring thematic prominence and information focus in FYC writers' development of a scholarly stance

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

• Corpus-Based Approaches to Writing: Conference on College Composition & Communication 2016 Workshop

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

• Communicative Competence: What does it mean for Asia in the 21st Century?

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

• Sandra Gollin Kies, The Rules of English: How should we teach grammar?

Conference presentations, 21 March 2015, Tampa, Florida

• Daniel Kies, Acquiring a Scholar's Voice: Findings from two Student Corpora on the Acquisition of Hypotaxis in First-Year Composition
• Sandra Gollin Kies, Development of specificity in first year writing through elaboration of the nominal group

Conference presentation, 12 August 2014, Brisbane, Australia

• Sandra Gollin Kies & Daniel Kies, Whither Official English?
  
  (A revision & expansion of a plenary lecture by Daniel Kies, Hearing Voices: On the Mismatch between Perception and Reality in U.S. Attitudes Toward English as a Global Language.)

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

• Daniel Kies, What is the evidence for 'orality' in first-year composition?
• Sandra Gollin Kies, Markers of orality in lexical verb choice in a corpus of student academic writing

Conference presentation, 24 August 2011, Beijing, China

• Daniel Kies, Making Meaning through Grammar: This Bread I Break by Dylan Thomas

Conference presentation, 7 October 2010, Fortaleza, Brazil

• Daniel Kies, Joseph Conrad’s Style in Heart of Darkness: A Linguistic Analysis

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

• Daniel Kies, Of Emoticons and Nonce Spellings:Changes in English Due to Its Use as the Language of the Internet

Plenary lecture, 6 May 2002, Samara, Russia

• Daniel Kies, Hearing Voices: On the Mismatch between Perception and Reality in U.S. Attitudes Toward English as a Global Language

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

• Daniel Kies, Adverbial but

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

• Daniel Kies, On Grammar, Writing Syle, and Writing Assessment

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)

• Daniel Kies, Evaluating grammar checkers: A longitudinal, comparative study

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

• Daniel Kies, The uses of passivity: Suppressing agency in Nineteen Eighty-Four

A chapter for Language sciences, 1991

• Daniel Kies, Language development in children

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

• Daniel Kies, Three principles underlying iconicity in literature: The poetics of nonsense in children's and general literature

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

• Daniel Kies, Indeterminacy in sentence structure

University of Kent at Canterbury, July 16-18, 1986

• Daniel Kies, Marked themes with and without pronominal reinforcement: their meaning and distribution in discourse
  
  Published as

Kies, D. (1988). Marked themes with and without pronominal reinforcement: their meaning and distribution in discourse. In Steiner and Veltman (eds.), Pragmatics, discourse, and text (pp. 47-75). Pinter.

Canterbury, England, July 17, 1986

• Daniel Kies, The Principle of Compensating Complexity

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

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