Corpora: corpora containing business texts

[Gordon and Pam Cain]

> Phillip Morrow wrote:
>
> A graduate student of mine is trying to find corpora containing
> business-related texts (other than newspaper or magazine texts) in
> English for his thesis research.  Can anyone help us locate such
> corpora?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Phillip Morrow
> Nagoya Gakuin University
> Nagoya, Japan
>

Dear Phillip--

Last year for my MA, I wanted business textbook texts in electronic
format, and found a lot at:

http://nsns.com/Syllabits

Syllabits is a site linked to other sites where lecturers in different
business subjects post their class notes on-line. I found a lot of good
stuff for marketing, as that was my area of interest.

The quality of the notes varied, from plain notes -- ie, not full
sentences or paragraphs -- to full notes to even one 'hyperbook'. As my
study was lexically-based, I could use all those sites.

Ethically, I suppose your student would have to contact each lecturer
separately. Most replied and were quite happy for me to use their notes.
One couldn't let me, as he had posted proprietary material that his
textbook publisher gave him, and a few never replied to me.

I hope this helps.

Gordon Cain
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Gordon Cain
Teacher of ESOL
Coverdale International English College
Riverstone (Sydney) Australia
gpcain at rivernet.com.au