TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a freeware, multiplatform corpus analysis toolkit for the technical writing classroom
AU - Anthony, Laurence
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan (16700573), and by a Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects, Japan (2004B-861).
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - This paper describes the development of the AntConc corpus analysis toolkit, originally designed for use in a technical writing course at Osaka University, Japan, but now adopted in institutions throughout the world as an easy-to-use, freeware, multiplatform alternative to the many commercial concordance programs. First, I will explain how the software was originally tailored to the needs of students in the Osaka writing course and later to a general audience through the requests and feedback from teachers and students around the world. Then, I will give an overview of tools in the most recent version of AntConc and explain their value using examples from the classroom. Finally, I will discuss some of the software's limitations and future developments, and suggest applications in professional communication.
AB - This paper describes the development of the AntConc corpus analysis toolkit, originally designed for use in a technical writing course at Osaka University, Japan, but now adopted in institutions throughout the world as an easy-to-use, freeware, multiplatform alternative to the many commercial concordance programs. First, I will explain how the software was originally tailored to the needs of students in the Osaka writing course and later to a general audience through the requests and feedback from teachers and students around the world. Then, I will give an overview of tools in the most recent version of AntConc and explain their value using examples from the classroom. Finally, I will discuss some of the software's limitations and future developments, and suggest applications in professional communication.
KW - Corpus linguistics
KW - Educational technology
KW - Software
KW - Technical writing
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U2 - 10.1109/TPC.2006.880753
DO - 10.1109/TPC.2006.880753
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33748501502
SN - 0361-1434
VL - 49
SP - 275
EP - 286
JO - IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
JF - IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
IS - 3
ER -