In:The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering: A corpus-based study into rhetorical conventions of research articles
Thi Ngoc Phuong Le, Minh Man Pham and Michael Barlow
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 107] 2023
► pp. 35–50
Chapter 3Mechanical engineering
Its nature, the informants and the corpus
Published online: 3 April 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.107.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.107.c3
Article outline
- Introduction
- 3.1The nature of mechanical engineering
- 3.1.1Mechanical engineering and its sub-disciplines
- 3.1.2Research methods in mechanical engineering
- 3.1.3Epistemological and sociological properties of mechanical engineering
- 3.2The role of mechanical engineering informants
- 3.3The corpus
- 3.3.1Construction of the present corpus
- 3.3.1.1Articulating the research purpose
- 3.3.1.2Defining the target population
- 3.3.1.3Developing a sampling frame
- 3.3.1.4Sampling issues
- 3.3.1.5Adjusting the sampling frame
- 3.3.1.6Specifying the sampling procedure
- 3.3.2Characteristics of the corpus
- 3.3.2.1Article structure
- 3.3.2.2Section division
- 3.3.2.3Corpus components
- 3.3.1Construction of the present corpus
