Review of Brent Dorsey Case Workshop
- Outline by Group 1: Nice work on "Introduction" and "Action Plan"
- Outline by Group 3: Nice work on "Criteria"
- Body by Group 2 & 3: Nice work on "Addressing Contrary Evidence" (Task 2)
- Body by Group 5: Nice work on "Using PIE Structure" (Task 1)
Task 1: Complete a Diagnostic Word Choice Quiz in Part I of the Worksheet
Task 2: Solve practice questions in Part 2 of the Worksheet with the following search tools:
1. Word and Phrase (COCA New Interface)
- Good for beginners (user-friendly, dictionary-like interface)
- Fewer number of words than regular COCA (only 120 million)
- Less custom search functions available compared to COCA (can only search information on words, such as word definition, collocation, sample sentences, genre, synonyms)
- Only one line of a text is available to study the context
- Good for experienced users and researchers with some linguistic background knowledge
- Can search more number of words than Word and Phrase Info (450 million)
- Can offer more custom search functions, such as phrase search, customized wild card search (wild card words with certain part of speech/collocation options, collocation search, synonym search)
- Can read more than one line to study the context -> "Expanded text" function (Click either the year or the genre code to see the expanded text)
3. Ozdic.com
Word Choice Reference Tools Guidebook
COCA Video Tutorial- Good for beginners (user-friendly, dictionary-like interface)
- Fewer number of words than COCA (number of words searchable unknown)
- Can only search collocation information
- Sample sentences very limited
Word Choice Reference Tools Guidebook
COCA Basics Paper Tutorial
Tips for More Effective COCA Search
