Chapter 1 Building Your Own Corpus 1
1.1 What Is a Corpus? 2
1.2 How to Build a Chemistry-specific Corpus 2
1.3 What You Can Do with Your Own Corpus 4
1.4 How to Create a Chemistry-specific Word List 5
Chapter 2 Introduction 7
Corpus in Use 7
Lead-in Questions 9
2.1 A Story to Justify the Research 10
2.2 Big Issue vs. Research Question 11
2.3 Telling the Story 12
2.4 Writing the Opening 14
2.5 Writing the Funnel 16
2.6 Writing the Aim 19
Functional Expressions and Sentences 23
Assignments 35
Chapter 3 Methods 37
Corpus in Use 37
Lead-in Questions 38
3.1 Purpose, Tense, and Voice 39
3.2 Using Passive Voice in Methods 41
3.3 Dealing with Experimental Details 41
Functional Expressions and Sentences 44
Assignments 52
Chapter 4 Results 53
Corpus in Use 53
Lead-in Questions 54
4.1 Visual Illustrations 56
4.2 Tables vs. Figures 57
4.3 Presenting Results 59
4.4 Subordinating Table and Figure Legends 61
4.5 Subordinating Methods 62
Functional Expressions and Sentences 64
Assignments 69
Chapter 5 Discussion 71
Corpus in Use 71
Lead-in Questions 72
5.1 Developing a Model 73
5.2 Answering the Research Question 74
5.3 Supporting the Answer with Results 76
5.4 Relating Results to Previous Research 77
5.5 Ending Discussion 79
Functional Expressions and Sentences 82
Assignments 86
References 87
Appendixes 89
Appendix I Keys to Exercises 89
Appendix II Common Affixes in Chemistry 102
Appendix III Common Chemical Abbreviations and Acronyms 107
Appendix IV Model Research Article 118