How about this one?
"The PERC Corpus (formerly called the "Corpus of Professional English (CPE)") is a 17-million-word corpus of copyright-cleared English academic journal texts in science, engineering, technology and other fields. It was compiled as a part of the project of the Professional English Research Consortium (PERC) and is intended to be used for research in the field of Professional English. " Source: http://scn.jkn21.com/~percinfo/
Business English
"The Cambridge Business English Corpus is 200 million word collection of written and spoken texts from, or relating to, the world of business."
Thanks, Ian. But this isn't freely available to search I think... unless you know of a way I don't! i'd like to compare an as-yet-to-be-compiled corpus of professional writing with an existing, larger corpus of a variety of domains and genres of 'professional writing'.
Why don't you create your own "Leedham Corpus of Business Writing?"
Save a representative selection of business letters as doc or pdf files in one Qiqqa document library for analysis.You can also create a separate library for "other professions". Then you can study the differences.
www.qiqqa.com/70557
If you want a corpus of academic writing, I have a document library of almost 1000 documents (on the topic of researching) that I might share. Other Qiqqa users might also be willing to share. For example, a recent set of queries showed me the following statistics:
- "researchable problem" 11 documents contain that word. The first ranked document has the phrase 4 times.
- 'researchable' 46 documents contain that word.
- 'research' 891 documents contain that word.
- 'the' 962 documents match.
well, yes. that would be one option - and not that hard to do. But it would be easier if there was one already in existence! I will only be able to find things available on the web for free and with no ethical issue around reuse. And will have to convert to plain text files, save metadata etc.
but thanks! will consider if nothing else turns up..... Maria
How about this one?
"The PERC Corpus (formerly called the "Corpus of Professional English (CPE)") is a 17-million-word corpus of copyright-cleared English academic journal texts in science, engineering, technology and other fields. It was compiled as a part of the project of the Professional English Research Consortium (PERC) and is intended to be used for research in the field of Professional English. " Source: http://scn.jkn21.com/~percinfo/
Have you heard about SERAC? It has been compiled by InterLAE research members (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Hi Maria,
I have recently used the CRA Corpus at http://rcpce.engl.polyu.edu.hk/RACorpus/. Professional academic writing, range of disciplines, fully searchable online, though the search Interface isnt' extremely flexible.
Hi, attached here a book that consists of some useful references.
Paul Nation surveyed academic journals and other publications to create his Academic Word List--mainly meant for second-language learners. His list of publications may be available; in any case, he should have it and may allow you to take a look. He is at: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/paul-nation
Have a look at REF-N-WRITE scientific paper writing tool. This tool allows you to import text from previous papers relevant to the subject area in MS word. While you are writing your paper, you can just search for similar statements from other authors and inherit their vocabulary and language to improve your paper. It also comes with a library of academic phrases that you can readily use to polish your paper. Here is the link for the site.
http://www.ref-n-write.com
They have some nice tutorials here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7qyyKtbyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hlXzqO3r4
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