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Introducing "corpus": a tool for finding language patterns
Advanced Academic Writing: Tips and Ideas
English - August 24, 2021 10:16 - 5 minutes - 5.42 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLanguage Learning Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When reading texts for inspiration on how you can write your own essays, you can be a "detective", examining the language patterns of a large bulk of texts from experts. This text database is called a "corpus", which is available online with very useful search functions. In this episode, I'll give a quick walkthrough of an online corpus tool, and show you how you can find regular patterns of language use in academic writing, those that you can apply in your own!