Anna Waller
  • Home
  • Résumé
  • Technical Skills
  • Editing
  • Research
  • Index

Research

While earning my MA in Professional and Technical Writing, I learned best practices of how to conduct primary and secondary research ethically and efficiently and how to frame coherent, appropriately-limited research questions.

"Jesus Speak" Sociolinguistic Analysis

This sociolinguistic analysis represents a large-scale research project I completed in a course called Language Theory. By grounding secondary research in my own personal narrative, I applied theoretical perspectives regarding the necessity, purpose, and inclusive/exclusive nature of speech communities to a language variety analysis comparing the language of Jesus with the language of American Christians. 
Read More

Writing Center Research

The following video is a collaborative research endeavor that my colleagues Jason Cessor, Jenny Crelia, Joshua Johnson, and Kelsie Walker and I presented at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in San Diego, CA (2012) and the South Central Writing Centers Association Annual Conference in Corpus Christi, TX (2013). The purpose of our research was to explore why interns in our writing center felt reluctant to have their own writing conferenced by other interns. In turn, we hoped  to discover what could be done to improve an intern’s ability to both conference and be conferenced. This video represents the data portion of our case study.  
Read More
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.