Text at Scale: Corpus Analysis in Technical Communication
Text at Scale presents corpus analysis as a methodological framework for exploring questions about genre development, technological mediation, writing practice and teaching, among many other areas of inquiry central to technical and professional communication. Arguing that corpus analytics provides a powerful approach for the field, Carradini and Swarts provide an overview of corpus analysis as a coherent set of methodological practices and frames of analysis, show how it can be used to pose and address questions about large corpora of language data, and offer practical and replicable demonstrations of corpus analysis techniques. Through their clear discussions and extensive examples, the authors offer a theoretically informed and strongly grounded approach to using corpus analysis to develop and test hypotheses against large bodies of textual data. Ultimately, this book provides a way forward for students and researchers new to the method of corpus analysis with a succinct description of an important tool for contemporary research.
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Stephen Carradini is an associate professor of technical communication in the School of Applied Professional Studies in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He studies emerging technologies in the workplace, social media, inter/disciplinarity, and methods. He teaches social media in the workplace, digital ethics and user experience.
Jason Swarts is professor and head of English at North Carolina State University, where he specializes in the field of technical communication. He is a core faculty member in NC State’s master's program in technical and scientific communication as well as in the communication, rhetoric, and digital media doctoral program. He focuses his research on technological mediation of writing practices, the rhetoric of technology, workplace communication and emerging genres of technical communication.
