Tom Cobb has made the JPU Corpus available on his Compleat Lexical Tutor site. From now on, you can conduct online concordance search of all those 221 essays and research papers.

Enter the keyword or phrase in the field and choose the corpus from the drop-down menu:

Have some free time? Let's try.

This essay was written by a Pécs University student in the mid-1990s. Part of my JPU Corpus collection, it's about E. M. Forster's classic novel, A Passage To India. You can read the essay in Lextutor with an extra concordance tool and text-to-speech.

Interested in other retro essays from the 90s? They are available on my corpus blog.

My collection of students' English essays and research papers, the JPU Corpus, is available on my corpus blog at http://joeandco.blogspot.com/. There are 221 scripts -- the majority from the late 1990s!

This week's gem: a student's essay on blues. Interested? Want to read it? Here we go: http://joeandco.blogspot.com/2007/05/l-157-m.html

Of the scripts, 115 are research papers. There are two short stories -- the rest: essays.

You can read students' interpretation of Forster's masterpiece, A Passage to India, their analysis of writing portfolios, views on parenting and childhood, plagiarism and war, the culture of the English department and the design of coffee cups, and the values of the TV soap Dallas and of American magazine Newsweek. Want something else? Search for essays on paranormal phenomena or the meaning of life, dogs' lives or the Soviet Union, William Zinsser or Graham Greene, Mahatma Gandhi or Umberto Eco. Thought no one wrote about the day they were born? Think again -- and read any of the thirty-three research papers on that popular theme.

Enjoy!