COMING SOON

Within the next month or two, we'll be releasing a special version of WORDANDPHRASE.INFO for those who are studying English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Rather than being based on all genres in COCA (spoken, fiction, magazine, newspaper, and academic), this resource will focus just on the 85 million words of academic text in the COCA corpus.

The core of the site will be a 5,000-10,000 list of words that are at least 50% more common (per million words) in the ACADEMIC genre of COCA than in the other genres. For each of those 5,000-10,000 words, users will be able to see their collocates and concordance lines and search for phrases based on text that you input (as with this site), but in this case the results will come just from the 85 million words in the ACADEMIC genre. In addition, users will be able to see how the word is distributed across the sub-genres of ACADEMIC -- for example, whether it is more common in Medical, Legal, Social Sciences, Humanities, and so on -- and then limit the concordance lines to just that sub-genre.

If you are a registered user of this site, we'll email you when these new features become available in late January.