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Center Graduate Students: Andrea Olinger

Andrea Olinger is a Phd candidate in the Center for Writing Studies in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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210 English Building | MC-718
olinger3@illinois.edu

Biographical Statement

I grew up in a Chicago suburb, but it's been awhile since I've lived in Illinois. I arrived here from Los Angeles, where I got an MA in applied linguistics and an ESL teaching certificate and survived--thrived--without a car. Before that, I did the "recent college grad" thing in DC, working for a research firm that got English majors like me hooked on social scientific methods and literacy research.

Research Interests

writing development across the lifespan, WAC/WID, style/voice, talk and writing, second language writing, applications of corpus linguistics for teaching writing, writing program administration, methods of discourse analysis

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