The John Swales Conference Corpus
If you need to present your paper in English at a conference, or you just want to improve your presentation skills, click here. We recorded and typed-up an entire conference so you can read it and find out how people present, how they ask questions, and what kind of special language they use.
The John Swales Conference Corpus (JSCC) is a collection of transcripts from an academic conference held in honour of John Swales hosted by the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor in June 2006. JSCC contains both lectures and question and answer sessions, amounting to around 100,000 words.
The recommended JSCC citation is: John Swales Conference Corpus (2009). Ann Arbor, MI: The Regents of the University of Michigan.
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