Finding Textual Examples of Genres: Issues for Corpus Users
정채관, Sue Wharton · Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics · 2012
There exists today a range of EAP corpora available to teachers and researchers. Some of these offer classifications of their texts by genre, in order to allow corpus users who are interested in genre-specific writing to select appropriate sets of texts. However, the classification used in the corpus may not easily identify the genres which the corpus user wishes to research, making it necessary for corpus users to develop their own procedures for identifying suitable texts. In this paper, we discuss our own experience of locating texts from two genres, Reflective Accounts and Undergraduate Engineering Laboratory Reports, from the BAWE corpus. We evaluate the success of the procedures we developed, and suggest implications for other corpus users and for corpus developers.