This is a selection of resources for those wishing to improve their scientific and academic writing in English. It showcases some online resources including 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 & online courses
VI Escribir ciencia en inglés / Writing science in English (Universidad de Murcia)
Word lists
AWL and definitions. Academic Word List Coxhead (2000). Around 570 headwords
AWL 10 sublists and sublist families
Exploring contexts of AWL (dictionary-based) and academic areas (needs a code)
Test your vocabulary range using Lex Tutor
Exploring collocations
Oxford online collocations dictionary
Collocation forbetterenglish (Sketch Engine SKELL): examples, word sketches and similar words
Word neighbors (different corpora available)
String net (explore patterns)
Collocaid: collocation errors and editor
Using Google N-GRAM to discover word combinations (intake of *)
Online corpora
Academic words in American English (Mark Davies COCA)
CRA (Corpus of Research Articles) Great to test your hypothesis (perform an analysis?)
British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE) Sketch engine gateway
BAWE corpus (Coventry site)
Deconstructing discourse
Generate word lists (Input url)
Web as a corpus (n-gram browser)
Google books Ngram Viewer Use it to test phraseological uses All the options here
Online DBs
Exploration tools:
Webcorp (The web is your corpus)
Taporware tools (Alberta)
Concordancers
Antconc (Win, MacOS, lINUX)
Do-it-yourself tools & Advanced users
Beautifulsoup parser (Python)
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Using COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)
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