Your final essay has to include the following information:

1. DEFINITION OF THE TOPIC (research question) or what you want to study: I

want to study the verbs most frequently used in wine tasting notes IN ENGLISH
AND SPANISH IN ORDER TO….
1. Remember that it has to include a purpose and an application
2. THE TOOLS YOU ARE GOING TO USE:

• CORPUS
o DEFINITION OF EACH OF THE CORPUS. USE ALL THE
INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CLASS TO DEFINE YOUR
CORPUS (Type, Quantitative and Qualitative representativeness,
information about N-grams, labelling, tagging (if any)…)
Example: My corpus is an English monolingual corpus,
specialized in the field of wine. The text type is wine tasting
notes. It is synchronic because it includes wine tasting notes
from the last three years. It is closed because the corpus
cannot be expanded….

o EXACT NUMBER OF TYPES AND TOKENS OF EACH OF THE

CORPUS AND OR NUMBER OF SAMPLES
o CORPUS O AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE TAGS

REMEMBER:

No less than 30,000 words

3. METHODOLOGY: How you did your research

o Quantitiative and Qualitative research

o Type of study; examples:
o Detailed description of the type of analysis: I got a Word list of my
corpus and look for the verbs ordered by frequency…. Afterwards I
…

o Two procedures: In a bilingual corpus: a-look for the

terms/sturctures… most frequently used in Spanish and see how
many they match b- if they do not match, look for the terms you
found in the English Corpus or viceversa (starting by the english
Corpus)

4. RESULTS: Examples
1. Results
2. Patterns of behaviour: Add “model lines” if you have found any in your
study: el vino presenta aromas a/ The wine has a …… color with …..rim
3. The didactic unit you obtained from the corpus
4. The glossary you obtained…
 5. The differences between the use of the adverbs you included in your
study

5. COMMENTS:

1. Make comments relevant to the results you obtained

2. Add “model lines” if you have found any in your study: el vino presenta
aromas a/ The wine has a …… color with …..rim

3. Add a Conclusion

6. REFERENCES