Courses Taught
- LING 392: The Structure of English
- LING 407: Senior Seminars: Functional Linguistics, Comparing Approaches to Syntax
- LING 410/510: Selected Topics: Systemic Functional Linguistics
- LING 416/516: Discourse Analysis
- LING 432/532: Sociolinguistics
- LING 438/538: Second Language Acquisition
- LING 470/570: Grammar for TESOL
- LING 476/576: Corpus Linguistics
- LING 507: Thesis Writing Seminar
- Ling 521 Applied English Grammar
- LING 560: Research Design for Applied Linguistics
- LING 561: Research Methodology for Applied Linguistics
Research
- Writing In the Disciplines
- Register Variation
- Corpus Linguistics
- English Grammar
Projects
Civil Engineering Writing Project
PSU Corpus of Student Academic Writing
Representative Publications
- Conrad, S., Hartig, A., & Santelmann, L. (Eds.) (2020). The Cambridge introduction to applied linguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Conrad, S. (2019). Register in English for academic purposes and English for specific purposes. Register Studies, 1(1), 171-201. https://doi.org/10.1075/rs.18008.con
- Biber, D. & Conrad, S. (2019). Register, genre, style (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Conrad, S. (2018). The use of passives and impersonal style in civil engineering writing. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32(1), 38-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651917729864
- Conrad, S. (2017). A comparison of practitioner and student writing in civil engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 106, 191-217. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20161
- Conrad, S., Biber, D., Daly, K., & Packer, S. (2009). Real grammar: A corpus-based approach to English grammar. New York: Pearson Education.
- Conrad, S. (2000). Will corpus linguistics revolutionize grammar teaching in the 21st century? TESOL Quarterly, 34, 548-560. https://doi.org/10.2307/3587743
- Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S. & Finegan, E. (1999). The Longman grammar of spoken and written English. Harlow, England: Pearson Education.