Publications

Articles/Essays

• “Searching Johnson’s Dictionary Online.” Johnsonian News Letter 76:2 (2025): 2-13. 

• "Teaching Research Methods and Linguistics Concepts through OED Antedating.” Dictionaries 46:2 (2025): 401-418. https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2025.a974772

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Teaching about Grammaticality with Online Tools.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6.2 (2021): 5109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i2.5109

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Prescriptivism, Grammar Checkers, and That vs. Which: How Our Tools Influence Our Rules.” ATEG Journal 24:1 (Summer 2015): 28-43.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Using Archival Data to Examine Mandatory Visits.” Academic Exchange Quarterly (Winter 2014). 49-56. Reprinted in Sound Instruction: Writing Center Theory and Practice, vol. 4. Ed. Kellie A. Charron. 80-86.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “The Grammar Voyeur: Using Google to Teach English Grammar to Advanced Undergraduates.”  American Speech 86 (Summer 2011): 247-258. 

Conference Papers/Presentations

• “Antedating as a Gateway to Linguistics: Using Dictionary Research to Teach Language Concepts.” Dictionary Society of North America Conference (DSNA-25), Buffalo, NY. 29-31 May 2025.

• “Antedating as a Gateway to Linguistics: Using Dictionary Research to Teach Language Concepts.” Dictionary Society of North America Conference (DSNA-25), Buffalo, NY. 29-31 May 2025.

• “Digital Scholarship We Should Be Using.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). 55th Annual Meeting. 4-5 April 2025. Virtual.

• “Peeve or Common Practice? Using a Corpus to Answer Questions about Grammar, Word Choice, and Language Variation.” Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar (ATEG) Annual Meeting. 12-13 July 2024. Pittsburgh, PA.

• “Come for the Points, Stay for the Conversation: Leveraging Yellowdig’s Machine Learning Designed Point System for Increased Student Motivation and Engagement.” with Bob Ertischeck and Aimee deNoyelles. Teaching and Learning with AI Conference. 22-24 July 2024. Orlando, FL.
• Bad Words Not to Be Imitated: Usage Comments in Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language (1755, 1773).” ASECS. 54th Annual Meeting. 4-6 April 2024. Toronto, ON. 

• “Usage Comments in Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language (1755, 1773).” International Conference on Applied Linguistics: Opportunities and Expectations. 27-28 Sept. 2023. MBZ University. Abu Dhabi, UAE.

• “Using ElasticSearch in EEBO and ECCO to Identify Johnson’s Dictionary Quotation Sources.” DSNA-24, Boulder, CO. 31 May – 3 June 2023.

• “How I Built This: DH Methods in 18th-Century Scholarship.” ASECS 53rd Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. 9-11 March 2023.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Undergraduate Researchers and Johnson’s Dictionary Online.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) 52nd Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. 2 April 2022.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Approaching Challenges in Obtaining Source Materials: Novel Strategies and Challenges for the Johnson’s Dictionary Online Project.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium. 12 Mar. 2021

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Teaching Grammaticality with Online Tools.” Symposium on Scholarly Teaching in the Age of COVID and Beyond. Linguistic Society of America Conference. Online. 9 Jan. 2021.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Collaboration to Obtain Source Materials: Collaboration Successes and Challenges for the Johnson’s Dictionary Online Project.” Vancouver Digital Humanities Conference. Online. 28 Oct 2020.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Greatest Hits.” Dictionary Society of North America 22nd Conference, Bloomington, IN. 11 May, 2019.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Delighting in Dictionaries: Teaching Students Advanced Dictionary Skills.” Assembly for Teachers of English Grammar (ATEG) 29th Annual Conference, Glassboro, NJ. 28 July 2018.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Adding Digital Functionality to an Eighteenth-Century Dictionary.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) 49th Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL. 22 Mar 2018.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Was America the Death of English? Examining Edwin Newman’s Strictly Speaking, Forty Years later.” ATEG 28th Annual Conference, Mt. Pleasant, MI. 11 Aug. 2017.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Using Google Books N-Gram Viewer to Investigate Language.” ATEG 27th Annual Conference, Charlottesville, VA. 5 Aug 2016.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “New Words Everywhere (and What Students Can Learn from Them).” ATEG 26th Annual Conference, Largo, MD, 24 July 2015.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Grammar Checkers Enforce Prescriptivism: A That/Which Timeline.” Poster. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Tampa, 19-21 March, 2015.

• Young, Beth Rapp. “Using Online Corpora to Research Contemporary Usage.” Digital Pedagogy Poster. CCCC, Tampa, 21 March, 2015.
• Young, Beth Rapp. “Reviewing the Grammar Cops.” Assembly for Teachers of English Grammar (ATEG) 25th Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, 4 September 2014.
• Young, Beth Rapp, and Kimberly Murray. “To Require or Not to Require: A Longitudinal Analysis of Student Visits to the Writing Center. National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW), Miami, 5 November 2011.
• Young, Beth Rapp. Panel Participant. "Tales from the Winner's Circle: Award-winning Online Faculty Discuss the Secrets of Their Success" Sloan-C ALN Conference, Orlando, 9 November 2011.
• Young, Beth Rapp. “Activities for Teaching Grammar Online.” ATEG 22nd Annual Conference, Largo, MD, 29 July 2011. 
• Young, Beth Rapp. “Do Errors Matter If We Don’t Notice Them? How Writing Teachers React to Error.” CCCC, Atlanta, 9 April 2011.

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