Concordancing Yourself: A Personal Exploration of Academic Writing: Research Note  

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Coniam, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 1 (Jan. 2004), page 49-55.
Topik: academic corpora; concordancing; text analysis
Fulltext: 13.1.49-55.pdf (183.88KB)

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This exploratory study involves the construction and analysis of a corpus of an individual’s own academic writing. Following an examination of the area of academic writing and the position of academic writing corpora within it, the paper discusses how a ‘personal corpus’ might be put together, along with issues of the necessaryqualityand quantity of ‘text’, and problems which may arise in the construction of a personal corpus. The paper also proposes a background, general ‘reference’, corpus against which features of academic writing may be measured. Despite its limitations, the most usable tool for the small-scale researcher remains the concordancer. Some limited analyses of lexical, syntactic and discourse features are then presented to show how a potential personal profilemight emerge.The paper concludes with a discussionof the limitationsfacingthe analysisof one’sownwriting,but suggests that, despite limitations,worthwhile insights can be gained in respect of one’s personal language awareness.

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