This is a selection of resources for those wishing to improve their scientific and academic writing in English. It showcases a selection of max 30 online resources inluding online course, face to face courses, academic word lists, online data bases, concordancers, corpora as well as some diy tools.
Online courses
British Council Writing for a purpose
Face to face courses
V Escribir ciencia en inglés (Universidad de Murcia)
Word lists
Exploring contexts of AWL (dictionary-based)
Test the AWL in your own papers or highlight them.
Online DBs
Exploration tools:
Webcorp (The web is your corpus)
Taporware tools (Alberta)
Concordancers
Antconc (Win, MacOS, lINUX)
Deconstructing discourse
Generate word lists (Input url)
Web as a corpus (n-gram browser)
Microsoft n-gram tool (just for fun and interesting lists of most frequent 100k words based on bing data mining)
Online corpora
Academic words in American English (Mark Davies COCA)
CRA (Corpus of Research Articles)
British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE) Sketch engine gateway
BAWE corpus (Coventry site)
Do-it-yourself tools & Advanced users
Beautifulsoup parser (Python)
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Using COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)
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