Congratulations to Dr. Minhee Kim, who successfully defended her dissertation Patterns of Linguistic Variation in Research Articles: The Role of Methodology on April 28, 2021. Based on 120 research articles from different disciplines she investigated the role of methodology (theoretical, qualitative, quantitative) for syntactic variation and developed her own dimensions of variation. An experienced composition instructor herself, she also discussed the implications of these dimensions for teaching academic writing. Congratulations to Minhee for finishing her work in this most difficult year! She is returning to Korea, where a position at her alma mater, Sahmyook University in Seoul, awaits her.
The other members of her committee were Jacee Cho, Tom Purnell, Eric Raimy, and Kate Vieira.
