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Heidi Wright teaches and researches academic writing and reading, focusing on developing materials to help university students meet the challenges they face. At Carnegie Mellon University, she is the course lead for ENG 76-100, which supports multilingual students. With a background in applied linguistics, Wright employs both quantitative and qualitative techniques related to corpus linguistics to uncover lexical, grammatical, and discoursal patterns in large data sets. Her current research projects are focused on examining stand-alone literature reviews across multiple disciplines and time periods. Additionally, she has published a study on genre register ties and lexical bundles in the English for Specific Purposes Journal, utilizing multidimensional (factor) analysis to enhance corpus-based research in academic writing.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.