A Self-Compiled Specialized Corpus as a Writing Reference Tool: A Case of Korean Graduate Students in Engineering
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In response to the recent trend of utilizing specialized corpora as a writing reference tool, this study investigates the feasibility of compiling and consulting a specialized corpus when online dictionaries and Google are available. In a 15-week academic writing course for publication purposes, 40 graduate students compiled and consulted a specialized corpus comprising approximately 200 research articles. Their hands-on experiences with the self-compiled specialized corpus were analyzed by triangulating student concordance logs, the class survey, and interviews with a focal group. While the specialized corpus was perceived as more useful than Google, it was not consulted as often due to the laborious process of compilation, limited data size, and slow runtime and crashes of the software AntConc. The main search purposes of the specialized corpus were to inquire sentential usage and collocations of the search words. The focal students, who wrote their own research papers, were able to analyze lexicogrammatical features in relation to the rhetorical functions, in particular displaying heightened genre awareness. Implications for compiling and utilizing a specialized corpus in an academic writing class are shared with pedagogical insights, including concordance log worksheets and suggestions for adopting a more effective corpus-based approach raising genre awareness of research articles.
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In response to the recent trend of utilizing specialized corpora as a writing reference tool, this study investigates the feasibility of compiling and consulting a specialized corpus when online dictionaries and Google are available. In a 15-week academic writing course for publication purposes, 40 graduate students compiled and consulted a specialized corpus comprising approximately 200 research articles. Their hands-on experiences with the self-compiled specialized corpus were analyzed by triangulating student concordance logs, the class survey, and interviews with a focal group. While the specialized corpus was perceived as more useful than Google, it was not consulted as often due to the laborious process of compilation, limited data size, and slow runtime and crashes of the software AntConc. The main search purposes of the specialized corpus were to inquire sentential usage and collocations of the search words. The focal students, who wrote their own research papers, were able to analyze lexicogrammatical features in relation to the rhetorical functions, in particular displaying heightened genre awareness. Implications for compiling and utilizing a specialized corpus in an academic writing class are shared with pedagogical insights, including concordance log worksheets and suggestions for adopting a more effective corpus-based approach raising genre awareness of research articles.
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