Papers on Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics

• Ewald, H. and Vann, R. (2003). You're a Guaranteed Winner: Composing You in a Consumer Culture. The Journal of Business Communication 40, 2, 98-117.

• Vann, R. and Ewald, H. (2003). Constructing deception: Reader and writer identities in junk mail. Paper presented at AAAL Conference in Washington, D.C, March 23, 2003.

• Vann, R. Narratives of happy and unhappy Iowa couples. Paper presented at American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, Ill, March 1996.
• Vann, R., F. Lorenz, and D. Meyer. 1991. Error Gravity: Faculty Response to Errors in the Written Discourse of non-native speakers of English. Assessing ESL Academic Writing, L. Hamp-Lyons (ed.), Norwood, New Jersey: ABLEX, 181-195.
• Vann, R. J., D. Meyer, and F. O. Lorenz. 1984. Error Gravity: A Study of Faculty Opinion ESL Errors, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 18:3, 427-440.
• Kroll, B. and R. Vann. (eds.) 1981. Connections and Contrasts: Exploring Speaking and Writing Relationships, Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), (236 pages).
• Vann, R. 1981. Bridging the Gap Between Oral and Written Communications in EFL, in B. Kroll and R. Vann (eds.) Connections and Contrasts: Exploring Speaking and Writing Relationships, Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English, 154-67.
• Vann, R. 1979. Oral and Written Syntactic Relationships in Second Languge Learning. In C. Yorio, K. Perkins, and J. Schachter (eds.) On TESOL '79: The Learner in Focus, Washington, D.C.: TESOL, 322-329.
• Vann, R. J. 1978. Bilingual Education Today: The Unresolved Issues, Language Arts, 55(2). 150-153.