On 25th April (Tuesday) at 16.30 in room K3 we invite you to a seminar Topic-targeted academic writing: creating and using a template corpus in class with Dr Michael Pace-Sigge.
Within a university setting, acquiring the skills of a proficient writer of academic texts presents a challenge for both L1 and L2 speakers of English. This workshop will take Data-Driven Learning (DDL) task-based teaching approach.
Regardless of the subject – be it physics, psychology, sociology or, indeed, literary studies, students, researchers, and teaching staff have a need to write academic dissertations, articles, etc. in English. For this, they need to be proficient in the language itself, yet, crucially, need the wording (i.e. framing, signposting, clarification, exemplification) which is expected in academic writing as well as appropriate technical vocabulary which is fitting for the target subject.
This workshop will be a practical, hands-on approach, where participants can create a template corpus for any topic and have an introduction to using a concordancer (i.e., WordSmith Tools). With this tool, typical words and phrases will be extracted; the tool, furthermore, allows users to see how and when these are usually occurring. In the end, it will be demonstrated how these can be used to assist in writing a suitable academic paper.
Dr. Michael Pace-Sigge is Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. His key areas of research are corpus linguistics, lexical priming, and Spoken English. He is the author of, among others, Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage (2013), Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web (2018) and co-editor of Lexical Priming: Advances and Applications (2017).