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Guides How to use some of the tools on the site
Although the tools on the site are designed to be as user-friendly as possible, some of them still need a little explaining. Below are specially written guides to tools such as the Word Profiler and the Concordancer for academic English.
Academic Word Profiler
The word profiler gives rich information about individual words, allowing you to understand how frequent a word is in academic compared to non-academic texts (fiction, spoken, news), frequency of different word forms, possible academic synonyms, any word lists it occurs in, and any collocations in the Academic Collocation List.
Concordancer
The concordancer is a search engine tool to examine a corpus (BNC Baby, British Academic Written English corpus and British Academic Spoken English corpus can all be searched), allowing you to understand frequency, range, collocation and grammar, and make decisions based on actual usage rather than intuition.
Login section
The login section is where students access exercises and quizzes. Once logged in, students can see a summary of quizzes they have taken and their scores, and take new quizzes. For teachers, the login section provides tools to create classes, import students, and view student performance by class or by individual quiz.
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Author: Sheldon Smith ‖ Last modified: 20 February 2026.
Sheldon Smith is the founder and editor of EAPFoundation.com. He has been teaching English for Academic Purposes since 2004. Find out more about him in the about section and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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