2nd Edition

Academic Writing with Corpora A Resource Book for Data-Driven Learning

By Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe Copyright 2025
226 Pages 141 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 141 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 141 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Academic Writing with Corpora offers an accessible guide to using corpora in academic writing successfully and productively. Addressing the challenges faced by teachers of English for academic purposes when explaining to their students how to write 'naturally', this book places an emphasis on learning from expert and proficient writing. Revised and updated throughout, this book: •... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 

Chapter 1 Introduction to corpus tools

Chapter 2 Introduction to AntConc. Building and using a do-it-yourself (DIY) corpus

Chapter 3 Observing and using language patterns

Chapter 4 Rhetorical and discourse features in general and subject-specific corpora

Chapter 5 Writing research papers with corpora

 

Answer key

Glossary of corpus terms

Index

Biography

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe is an independent scholar who for many years taught English for academic purposes at the University of Huddersfield, UK, using corpus methods.