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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of English

Teaching areas

Linguistics, Writing

Research areas

Software design, text and corpus analysis

Education

PhD, Applied Linguistics, University of Memphis, United States, 2005

MA, Applied Linguistics, University of Memphis, United States, 2003

BA, Humanities (philosophy), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom, 1992

Professional experience

Director Of Education, True Learning Online, China, 2017 - 2018

Teacher, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering, Memphis, Tenessee, United States, 2016 - 2017

Teacher,, Omni Prep Academy,, Tenessee, United States, 2014 - 2016

Chief Scientist,, Decooda, Tenessee, United States, 2011 - 2014

Professor,, University of Memphis, Tenessee, United States, 2005 - 2011

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2523

Dr. Philip McCarthy

Associate Professor

PhD, University of Memphis, United States

Philip McCarthy has taught English, ESL, writing, and linguistics for nearly 30 years at institutions such as the University of Memphis, the Memphis Academy for Science and Engineering, and the University of Sharjah. McCarthy has also worked in industry as Chief Scientist for the IT company, Decooda. His areas of research and teaching interest are applied natural language processing and foundational writing.

Publications

Jasmina Najjar And Philip Mccarthy. “AI and the Digital Writing Process.”, 11 June 2024

Philip Mccarthy, Noor Kaddoura, Ayah Al-harthy, Anuja Thomas, Nicholas Duran And Khawlah Ahmed. Corpus analysis on students’ counter and support arguments in argumentative writing, Pegem Journal Of Education And Instruction, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Philip Mccarthy And Khawlah Ahmed. Writing the Research Paper: Multicultural Perspectives for Writing in English as a Second Language, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Philip Mccarthy, A Al-harthy, Rachel Buck, Khawlah Ahmed, Nick Duran, A Thomas, N Kaddoura And A Graesser. Introducing Auto-Peer: A Computational Tool Designed to Provide Automated Feedback, Asian Esp Journal

Philip Mccarthy, Noor Kaddoura, Rachel Buck, Anuja Thomas, Khawlah Ahmed, Nicholas Duran And Ayah Al-harthy. Metadiscourse and counterargument integration in student argumentative papers, English Language Journal, 1 June 2021

Conference Presentations

Integrating subtitles into second Language teaching., Tesol Arabia, April 2024

Counter-Argument Integration and Construction in L2 Student Writing, Globelt Conference, 1 September 2021

Putting the 'I' in Idea: Helping Students and Teachers to Rethink Plagiarism, English Department, American University Of Sharjah, April 2021

Hello from the Other Side: The Structure of Counterarguments in Argumentative Papers, International Conference On Writing For Stem, 29 November 2019

Introducing Auto-Peer: A Computational Tool Designed to Provide Automated Feedback, International Conference On Writing For Stem, 29 November 2019

This is the End: Identifying, Categorizing, and Teaching the Final Remarks of Paragraphs, International Conference On Writing For Stem, 29 November 2019

Auto-Peer: Developing Technology at AUS to Assist Students in Advanced Writing, Academic Writing Seminar At Cen, 7 November 2019

Meaning Counts: The Sad Reality that We Really Are Just a Number, Department Of English Research Seminar, 6 October 2019

The Role of Determinism in the Development of AI, Ieee Artificial Intelligence Panel, 1 October 2018

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Auto-Peer: A Computational Tool Designed to Improve Writing Quality for College Students, American University of Sharjah, 01 June 2019 - 31 May 2022

Awards and Honors

CAS Best Researcher Award, AUS, The award is presented annually to a faculty member from AUS for outstanding performance in terms of research., 1 May 2023

Early Career Research Award, University of Memphis, 01 September 2009