Developing a freeware, multiplatform corpus analysis toolkit for the technical writing classroom

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 275-286

  Anthony, Laurence ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Educational technology; Software; Technical writing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; LINGUISTICS;

CORPUS LINGUISTICS; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ANTCONC;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 33748501502     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2006.880753     Document Type: Article

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