Carnegie Mellon University

Heidi Wright

Heidi Wright

Senior Lecturer, Writing & Communication | Course Lead, ENG 76-100

  • Posner Hall 272
Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Area of Study

Writing & Communication

Bio

I teach and research academic writing and reading to develop materials that help university students meet the challenges they face. Here at CMU, I am the course lead for ENG 76-100 for multilingual students.  By training, I am an applied linguist. I use quantitative and qualitative techniques related to corpus linguistics to discover lexical, grammatical, and discoursal patterns in large data sets. My current research projects examine stand-alone literature reviews across multiple disciplines and time periods. I have recently published a study on genre and register ties within lexical bundles in English for Specific Purposes Journal and a multidimensional (factor) analysis in Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing.

Course lead for ENG 76-100: Reading and Writing in an Academic Context (Multilingual writers)

Education

Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University