Books

Pickering, L., Friginal, E., & Staples, S. (under contract). Talking at work: Corpus-based explorations of workplace discourse. Houndsmills, UK: Palgrave-Macmillon.

Staples, S. (2015). The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Peer-reviewed journals

Staples, S. & Reppen, R. (in press). Understanding first-year L2 writing: A lexico- grammatical analysis across L1s, genres, and language ratings. Journal of Second Language Writing.

Staples, S. Egbert, J., Biber, D. & Gray, B. (in press). Academic writing development at the university: Phrasal and clausal complexity across level of study, discipline, and genre. Written Communication.

Staples, S. (2015). Examining the linguistic needs of internationally educated nurses: a corpus- based study of lexico-grammatical features in nurse-patient interactions. English for Specific Purposes Journal, 37, 122-136.

Biber, D., Gray, B., & Staples, S. (2014, advanced access). Predicting patterns of grammatical complexity across textual task types and proficiency levels. Applied Linguistics.

Staples, S., Kang, O., & Wittner, E. (2014). Considering the interlocutor in university discourse communities: Impacting U.S. undergraduates' perceptions of ITAs through a structured contact program. English for Specific Purposes Journal, 35, 54-65.

Carter, N., Staples, S., Yu, X., & Shen, J. (2013, April). American English pronunciation and the Internationally Educated Nurse: A multi-disciplinary collaboration to meet the education needs of hospital nurses. Nursing Management, 52-55.

Shen, J., Yu, X., Staples, S., & Bolstad, A. (2013). Using the IPS tool to assess interpersonal skills of Internationally Educated Nurses. Japan Journal of Nursing Science.

Staples, S., Egbert, J., Biber, D., & McClair, A. (2013). Formulaic sequences and academic writing development: Lexical bundles in the TOEFL iBT writing section. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 12 (3), 214-225.

Yu, X., Staples, S., Shen, J., & Bolstad, A. (2012). Non-verbal communication behaviors of internationally educated nurses and patient care. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 26 (4), 290-308.

Book chapters

Staples, S. (2015). Spoken corpora. In D. Biber & R. Reppen (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of corpus linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.

Staples, S. & Biber, D. (2015). Cluster analysis. In L. Plonsky (Ed.), Advancing quantitative methods in second language research (pp. 243-274). London: Routledge.

Staples, S., Egbert, J., Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2015). Register variation. In D. Tannen, H. Hamilton, & D. Schiffrin,  (Eds.), Handbook of discourse analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Biber, D. & Staples, S. (2014). Exploring the prosody of stance: Variation in the realization of stance adverbials. In T. Raso & H. Mello (Eds.), Spoken corpora and linguistic studies (pp. 271–294). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Staples, S. & Biber, D. (2014). The expression of stance in nurse-patient interactions: An ESP perspective. In M. Gotti & D. S. Giannoni (Eds.), Corpus analysis for descriptive and pedagogical purposes: ESP perspectives (pp. 123-142). Bern: Peter Lang.

Conference Proceedings

Reppen, R., & Staples, S. (2013). Productive vocabulary: A look at the effect of task and language in a corpus of academic student writing. In A. Lenko-Szymanska (Ed.), TaLC10: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora. Warsaw: Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. ISBN: 978-83-935320-0-1.

Working Papers

LaFlair, G., Staples, S., & Egbert, J. (2015). Variability in the MELAB speaking task: Investigating linguistic characteristics of test taker performances in relation to rater severity and score. CaMLA Working Papers.

Newsletter Articles

Kang, O., Staples, S., & Wittner, E. (2012). Impacting undergraduates’ perceptions of ITAs through institutionally supported contact. TESOL ITA Interest Section Newsletter.

Staples, S. (2012). English for Medical Purposes at TESOL. AZ TESOL News, 33(2), 8.

Reviews

Staples, S. (2013). Review of Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage, by Gilquin, De Cock, & Granger. Corpora, 8(2), 261-264.

Staples, S. (2010). Review of the book The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: A Corpus- based Study of Cross-cultural Interaction, by Eric Friginal. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 15(4), 549-556.