I am a writer speech-language pathologist and PhD candidate and assistant editor for the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties.

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I am working on a collection of essays that explain communicative and linguistic phenomenon with the aid of true crime, called Body of Communication. My PhD studies focus on the writing process, more specifically the role of the topic sentence in the expository writing of secondary students. 

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Currently, I am a Visiting Fellow at the State Library of NSW investigating a corpus of high school essays to identify the relationship between topic sentence use and writing quality.

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