Some useful references on more general issues
Bem, D. J. 1987. Writing the empirical journal article. In M. P. Zanna & J. M. Darley (Eds.), The compleat academic: A practical guide for the beginning social scientist (pp. 171-201). New York: Random House. (PDF)
Glasman-Deal, H. 2009. Science Research Writing: A Guide for Non-Native Speakers of English. London: Imperial College.
Online DBs
Word neighbors
Webcorp (The web is your corpus)
Concordancers
Antconc (Win, MacOS, lINUX)
Deconstructing discourse
Clean your text
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)
AWL highlighter (In groups of ten sublists) More on the AWL.
Online corpora
Scientext
Academic words in American English (Mark Davies COCA)
British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE) Sketch engine gateway
Do-it-yourself tools
Advanced users
Beautifulsoup parser (Python)
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