Sian Alsop

Siân Alsop teaches academic writing at Coventry University. She was awarded a PhD by Coventry University for her work on the pragmatic annotation of the Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) and an MA (res) by the University of Warwick. She has worked as a research assistant on the project to develop the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus, as web editor for the Warwick Medical School, and spent six months as a visiting academic at the University of Tübingen to develop the ELVis language visualisation software. Her current projects include developing software to support language learners and analysing the linguistic character of feedback.

Area of Expertise:

Corpus linguistics, Academic writing

academic writing; corpus linguistics; education; data visualisation; computational methods

We engage with spoken and written academic discourse – and its many manifestations across the disciplines – everyday. We expect our students to do the same and try to teach them how. The aim of my research is to identify and unpick structures and patterns in authentic data that enable this how, and to find effective ways of communicating them to staff and students.