LOOKING AT CITATIONS: USING CORPORA IN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

Appropriate reference to other texts is an essential feature of most academic writing, and we should expect courses in academic writing to sensitize students to the choices that are available to them when they decide to refer to other texts. A brief review of popular EAP writing textbooks finds, however, that attention is given mainly to surface features of citation, focusing on quotation, summary, and paraphrase. Analysis of a purpose-built...