About Write Like an Academic
Write Like an Academic is the result of nearly ten years of work teaching thesis writing skills to postgraduate students. It is primarily based on the PhD thesis of Nilgun Hancioglu into corpus informed academic thesis writing, and on the postgraduate advanced writing course that she has developed around this thesis at the Eastern Mediterranean University.
From its humble beginnings as a paper-based course with a strong emphasis on lexical chunking, this course has now evolved into the Write Like an Academic Online Course with a coherent lexico-structural approach based on a corpus-informed methodology.
Two basic corpora underpin the course: the Learner Abstract Corpus (LAC) and the Target Abstract Corpus (TAC), along with the Academic Abstract Corpus Bank of Moves (the AAC Bank of Moves ), and a thesis word frequency list, the WLA 165.
The AAC Bank of MOVEs
All these resources are available for users as part of the Write Like an Academic Online Course .
In this Blog, the Lexitronics team will be keeping you up to date with our work, and looking at other resources, courses, and activities to help students whose first language is not English to write like an academic!
The research conducted by Nilgun into academic writing was part of the Lexitronics team’s portfolio of research that was shortlisted for a British Council ELTONs award for innovation in English Language Teaching in 2009.
