ABSTRACT
It can be challenging to teach academic writing to a class of graduate students from a range of disciplines. Often, instructors must find effective ways to teach academic writing conventions to a student from Early Childhood Education sitting next to a student from the Physics Department. The present lesson involves students compiling their own corpora from research articles in their fields and using AntConc to explore verb patterns (e.g. verb + gerund/infinitive) and frequencies (e.g. examine versus investigate) in specific disciplines to better inform their own writing.
