English Linguistics:
Applied Linguistics
How to use the COBUILD corpus (1)
How to use the COBUILD corpus (2)
Comparison with Dutch: the INL corpus
Reporting on your progress and findings
Reporting on your progress and findings
Once you find your way around in FirstClass easily, and you have managed to obtain a workable corpus extraction for your research project, you can start with the real work -- interpreting the data. As your discovery process proceeds, we expect to find a number of things posted in the folder with your name (or names, for groups of two people) on it, within the 'conference' or topic you are working on:
- first of all, the raw data which you used for your analysis should be posted 'as is'
- second, a regrouped, roughly but gradually more finely analyzed or 'categorized' version of your data should be included
- third, you may want to make a hand-out for your oral presentation giving a schematic representation of your results, in which case you can post it on the FirstClass system as well
- and finally, the term paper for the course in Applied Linguistics itself should also be posted on the system rather than handed in on paper
Practical pointers
When you post the schematic representation of your results and the final paper onto the FirstClass system, it is best to give the files or attachments which you upload a filename referring to the topic you worked on (e.g. 'presentation on bare generics.doc', 'paper on his/him signing the contract.doc'). Otherwise, everybody uses similar or even the same filenames ('paper appling.doc', 'paper davidse.doc') for their files which, if one is not paying attention, will get overwritten when another file with the same name is downloaded to the same folder.
In the FirstClass folder which is to contain your personal work, there is no need to make subfolders, unless if you want to group several files together. For instance, if your raw corpus data come in different files because they are from different subcorpora, you can make a folder "raw data" and post the separate data files in that folder. However, it is best not to make new folders containing only one file (e.g. a folder "paper" containing only your final paper.)
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Contents: Lieven Vandelanotte
Created by: Lieven Vandelanotte
Last modified: 12-03-2004
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