Text Analysis by Computer
Using Free Online Resources to Explore Academic Writing
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.v1i2.279Keywords:
text analysis, academic writingAbstract
This article illustrates how freely available computer tools can be used for academic writing. It presents a series of tools and functions from the area of corpus linguistics, and shows how these can be used by students and teachers when working on dissertations and theses or when exploring conventions of academic writing and of writing in specific disciplines.
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