Corpus-based materials supporting the writing of academic English.
Research Tools
Simple concordancers for different sections of research articles. Search by Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion. Not all disciplines follow this macrostructure, but the phrases and rhetorical moves in the Method section, for example, will be present in the article even if there is no Method heading.
New Titles
To write well in an academic setting, you need to know the conventions of your discipline: the typical article structure, appropriate phrasing, and sentence patterns. Based on large-scale corpus analysis, these guides use text analysis to make explicit the conventions associated with different disciplines.
Based on the analysis of 3,000 articles (23 million words). Covers common word and phrase patterns and the organisation of different sections.
A guide to writing in Arts and Humanities, with corpus-based examples and section-by-section analysis.
A guide to Economics writing with extensive corpus exammples.
A guide to the structure and phrasing used in Engineering.
Corpus-based guidance for writing research articles in Business and Management.
A guide to the structure and phrasing used in Psychology.
A guide to the structure and phrasing used in Medicine.
A guide to the structure and phrasing used in Environmental research.
A guide to the structure and phrasing used in Chemistry.
Language Learning
Corpus-based guides for learning key English vocabulary and expressions.
A guide to the most common phrasal verbs in American English with corpus-based examples throughout.
A guide to the most common business phrasal verbs in American English with corpus-based examples.