Corpus analysis software, academic writing guides, and language learning materials.
Corpus analysis software, academic writing guides, and language learning materials.
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This 100-page book explores the capabilities and weaknesses of AI as a language and writing assistant. We might think of AI as a tool now, but it will soon become an environment — an integral part of our studying and working life. The changes to educational institutions will be revolutionary.
Available in paperback and EPUB.
New Titles
To write well in an academic setting, you need to know the conventions of your discipline: the typical article structure, appropriate phrasing, and sentence patterns. Based on large-scale corpus analysis, these guides make explicit the conventions associated with different disciplines.
Language Learning
Corpus-based guides for learning key English vocabulary and expressions.
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Our Windows-based text analysis programs are now available at no cost. Download from michaelbarlow.com.
A concordancing program for Windows that provides a range of tools for analysing texts, including KWIC concordances, frequency lists, and collocational analysis.
A bilingual and multilingual concordancer for contrastive analyses, language learning, and translation studies. Used at institutions around the world.
Finds collocations and terms in a corpus. Features include collocation search with statistical measures (Log Likelihood, MI, t-score), n-gram and lexical bundle extraction, and p-frame lists.
Adds a discourse element to concordancing. Access it online at wordskew.com with links to tutorial videos.
About
Athelstan has been publishing corpus analysis software and language learning materials since the 1990s. Our current focus is the Writing the Research Article series — discipline-specific guides that use large-scale corpus analysis to help graduate students and early-career academics write for publication in peer-reviewed journals. All titles are distributed through Ingram and available worldwide.
