CorpusLAB

CorpusLAB offers corpus-based materials to help with learning English and, for advanced students, to support the writing of good academic English.

Academic English

To write well in an academic setting, it is necessary to know the conventions associated with your discipline. These conventions include the composition of articles -- the typical sections that are used -- and the appropiate phrasing and sentence structures associated with different parts of research articles. Based on corpora and the research of academics, we are working on a variety of books to help undergraduates and graduates to be successful in writing.

Writing Academic English: Social Science

This guide to Social Science writing is based on the analysis of 3000 Social Science articles (23 million words). Some sample units will be available shortly. The book covers both the common word and phrase patterns and the organisation of different sections. Each unit has optional additional activities that involve a simple corpus search. We are making use of a smaller corpus consisting of subcorpora for the Introduction, Method, Results/Discussion and Conclusion sections and we are making the corpus generally available for interested students and teachers. The corpus can be accessed here.

Writing Academic English: Economics

This is a guide to Economics writing. Each unit has optional additional activiites that involve a simple corpus search. We are making use of a small corpus consisting of subcorpora for the Introduction, Method, Theory/Model, Results/Discussion and Conclusion sections. The corpus can be accessed here.

Writing Academic English: Psychology

This is a guide to Psychology writing. Each unit has optional additional activiites that involve a simple corpus search. We are making a sample corpus generally available for searching. The sections are Introduction, Method, Results. Discussion and Conclusion. You can search the corpus here.

Writing Academic English: Arts & Humanities

This is a guide to writing in Arts and Humanities. Each unit has optional additional activities that involve a simple corpus search. For this, we are making use of a small corpus consisting of subcorpora for the Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion and Conclusion sections. You can search the corpus here.