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Hi Ida, Depending on your students, and the time and resources you have available, you could always get them to construct and explore their own, self-compiled corpora, a la Lee & Swales (2006). Their paper also has suggestions for (some) freely available online corpora, which you may find useful. And there's always David Lee's webpage, http://tiny.cc/corpora, which might be a good source of material. I've tried the L&W model myself (http://www.hio.no/For-tilsatte/Kurs-og-seminar/Academic-Phrasebook - first paragraph in Norwegian, rest in English), with a fair amount of success, but only with PhD students and other research staff, not with bachelor or master students. Best wishes, Daniel Ref: Swales J, Lee D. 2006. A corpus-based EAP course for NNS doctoral students: moving from available specialized corpora to self-compiled corpora. English for Specific Purposes 25: 56-75. --- www.danielfryer.no On 8 July 2011 10:43, Ida Klitgård <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I would like to direct my students to free, accessible online databases of > academic writing in both the humanities, social sciences and natural > sciences, but I cannot find any on the net. I would need corpora of both > student writing (both in English as L1 and L2) as well as corpora of > scholarly writing in order for us to do various searches in class. > I would be grateful for references to such databases out there, if they > exist. > Thanks. > Best regards, > Ida. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Ida Klitgård, ph.d., dr.phil. > Lektor i engelsk > Roskilde Universitet > Language and Intercultural Communication Services (LICS) > Institut for Kultur og Identitet, 03.2.4. > Postboks 260 > Universitetsvej 1 > 4000 Roskilde > Tlf.: 46 74 24 67 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Web: http://magenta.ruc.dk/lics/akademisk_engelsk/Underviser_/ > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Ida Klitgård, PhD, Dr.Phil. (Habil.Doctor) > Associate Professor in English > Roskilde University > Language and Intercultural Communication Services (LICS) > Department of Culture and Identity, 03.2.4. > P.O. Box 260 > Universitetsvej 1 > DK-4000 Roskilde > Denmark > Tel: 46 74 24 67 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Website: http://magenta.ruc.dk/lics_en/english_academic/idak/ >