Associate Professor of English
Contact
- Office: C215 Tribble Hall
- Phone: (336) 758-3749
- Email: lancasci@wfu.edu
Degrees
- PhD, University of Michigan
- MA, Teachers College Columbia University
- BA, Emory University
Areas of Interest
- Writing in the Disciplines / Writing Across the Curriculum
- Academic Discourse Analysis
- The Language of Stance and Evaluation
- Educational Linguistics
Courses Taught at WFU
- ENG 789: Standard English and the Politics of Language Authority
- ENG 309/609: Modern English Grammar
- ENG 306/606: Interaction in Language: Intro to Written Discourse Studies
- WRI 210: Academic Research and Writing
- WRI 111: Writing About Writing (“What Makes Writing Good?”)
- WRI 111: World Rhetorics in the Age of Globalization
Selected Publications
- “Language in Economics,” Article in preparation for the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Editor Hilary Nesi. 2024.
- “Hedging beliefs and practices among upper-level undergraduate writers.” Revise & resubmit, Mar. 2024; Draft 2 under review, English for Specific Purposes. 2024.
- “Possibilities and Challenges for Linguistically Informed DBIs with Students and Faculty.” Composition Forum, Special Issue: “The Discourse-Based Interview: Forty Years of Exploring the Tacit Knowledge of Writers.” 2022.
- “Bringing the darkness to light: Challenges and strategies for surfacing faculty’s tacit assessment of student writing.” Revise & Resubmit, Dec. 22, from Across the Disciplines
- “Stance as style: Toward a framework for analyzing academic language.” Style and the Future of Composition Studies, edited by Paul Butler, Brian Ray, and Star Medzerian Vanguri. Utah State UP/U P of Colorado. 2020.
- “Tracking students’ developing conceptions of voice and style in writing.” Developing Writers: A Longitudinal Study, ed by Anne Ruggles Gere. University of Michigan Press. 2019.
- “Challenges and breakthroughs in a WID-based faculty development seminar: Reflections from a new WAC scholar.” Sustainable WAC, edited by Dan Melzer, Michelle T. Cox, and Jeffrey Galin. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). 2018.
- “Using corpus results to guide the discourse-based interview: A study of one student’s awareness of stance in academic writing in philosophy.” Journal of Writing Research, 8(1), 119-148. 2016.
- “Expressing stance in undergraduate writing: Discipline-specific and general qualities.” Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 23, 16-30. 2016.
- “Do Academics Really Write This Way? A Corpus Investigation of Moves and Templates in “They Say / I Say.” College Composition and Communication. 67.3. February 2016.
- “Expressing Stance in Undergraduate Writing: Discipline-Specific and General Qualities.” Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 23. September 2016.
- “Using Corpus Results to Guide the Discourse-Based Interview: A Study of One Student’s Awareness of Stance in Academic Writing in Philosophy.” Journal of Writing Research. 8.1. June 2016.
- “Exploring Valued Patterns of Stance in Upper-Level Student Writing in the Disciplines.” Written Communication. 31.1. January 2014.
- “Making Stance Explicit for Second Language Writers in the Disciplines: What Faculty Need to Know about the Language of Stance-taking.” WAC and Second Language Writers: Research towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices. Eds. T.M. Zawacki & M. Cox (Perspectives on Writing. Fort Collins, Colorado, 2014).
- “Tracking Interpersonal Style: The Use of Functional Language Analysis in College Writing Instruction.” The Centrality of Style. Eds. M. Duncan & S. Medzeran-Vanguri (Perspectives on Writing. Fort Collins, Colorado, 2013).
- “Interpersonal Stance in L1 and L2 Students’ Argumentative Writing in Economics: Implications for Faculty Development in WAC/WID Programs.” Across the Disciplines. 8.4. 2011.
Additional Resources
Dr. Lancaster’s personal website
