e.g. Large corpora such as the British National Corpus and the COBUILD Corpus and Collocations Sampler are now accessible,free of charge,online and can be usefully incorporated into a process writing approach to help develop students'writing skills.This article aims to familiarize readers with these resources and to show how they can be usefully exploited in the redrafting stages of writing to both minimize the teachers'workload and encourage greater cognitive processing of errors. (from "Using online corpora to develop students'writing skills",by Alex Gilmore,published in the ELT Journal Vol 63/42009)e.g.Large corpora such as the British National Corpus and the COBUILD Corpus and Collocations Sampler are now accessible, free of charge, online and can be usefully incorporated into a process writing approach to help develop students’ writing skills. This article aims to familiarize readers with these resources and to show how they can be usefully exploited in the redrafting stages of writing to both minimize the teachers’ workload and encourage greater cognitive processing of errors. (from “Using online corpora to develop students’ writing skills” , by Alex Gilmore, published in the ELT Journal Vol 63/4 2009)