Assignment
Assignment #4
Completion requirements
Opened: Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 10:30 PM
Due: Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 10:30 PM
Assignment #4 - Using COCA
For this assignment, you will use COCA to build your own corpus, specific to your area and interest. Your assignment should include a list of terms with their concordances, specific to your area. Try terms/words such as
- research: what are synomyns?
- do research: what are alternatives to these?
- investigation: what verbs go with this?
- carry out: how do these combine with other words?
Explore using the various syntax forms used in COCA and examples listed in "coca_help_guide.pdf"
Your assignment must be submitted as a text file.
- Name the file as follows: "assignment_4_yourfirstname.txt" (or ".rtf", or ".doc"/".docx" if you use Word), where yourfirstname is indeed your first name.
- Write the title of the assignment in your file, include your name and date.