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Deacon, Robert

Assistant Professor | College of Psych. and Liberal Arts: School of Arts and Communication

rdeacon@fit.edu
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Formal Linguistics, Distributed Morphology, Adpositions, Writing Instruction, ESL

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Deacon, R. J. (2024). Developing Thinking through LLM-Assisted Writing: Hegelian Synthesis and Critical Thinking. Journal of Writing and Artificial Intelligence 1 (1), 1-42

Deacon, R.J. (2018). The evolving argument: negotiating improved academic writing skills and class cohesion. 研究年報 58, 157-173

Deacon, R. J. (2017). Roots in Adpositional Domains: Reasons to Include a little p_ Categorial Head. 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 131-140

Deacon, R. J. (2017). The causes of English spelling errors by Arabic learners of English. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3(2), 1-22.

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