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Lengusa
Continuing a series of “test drives” of freely available English language linguistic search engines, I turn to , pointed out to me by a reader of Searching for Ludwig. …
Sentence Stack
is a linguistic search engine, pointed out to me by a reader of an earlier post, Searching with Ludwig, where I reviewed the features offered by Ludwig Guru.…
Emails in academia
A colleague who is an academic sent this to me and I would like to share it with you. By sharing it with your students you may save some time…
Searching with Ludwig
Ludwig Guru advertises itself as a search engine that “helps you write better English by giving you contextualized examples taken from reliable sources.” Free registration (e.g. through Google or with…
How to check whether a phrase is correct
Even native English speakers are sometimes not sure if a phrase is correct and a dictionary or grammar search cannot always help. In my proofreading, for example, I sometimes need…
Online dictionaries 2
Unexpected uses of an online dictionary 2 Even experienced academic writers and native speakers can find useful information in learner’s dictionaries for checking and improving their academic writing. They can…
Online dictionaries 1
Unexpected uses of an online dictionary 1 Uses of a traditional dictionary are well known but academic writers may not be familiar with some of the functions of an online…
Oxford Grammar for EAP
is an excellent resource for developing academic writing skills. Even academic writers with a few minutes per day or per week can learn new skills and…
Manchester Academic Phrasebank
The freely available online Academic Phrasebank contains hundreds of sentence templates for the rhetorical moves typically used in academic dissertations and research papers. (A ‘rhetorical move’ is realized in a…