In:“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 95–114
Chapter 5The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness
An information and documentation analysis of Late Modern English scientific Texts
Published online: 10 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.05alf
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.05alf
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The corpus and representativeness
- 3.Methodology
- 4.Findings and discussion
- Qualitative representativeness
- Quantitative representativeness
- 5.Concluding remarks
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