When you’re trying to figure out just how you want to express a point in your writing, what digital resources can you turn to, in addition to your human collaborators? Sure, dictionaries can be useful, but what if you’re trying to avoid repeating the same word over and over, or trying to see if two words sound right together? In this workshop, we will look how to ask one’s questions about word choices in a range of free language “corpora,” large databases of language as it is actually used. We will focus on corpora that include academic writing in English, but if you also write in other languages, you can apply these strategies to corpora featuring other languages too. If possible, bring a laptop to try out resources on your own device during the workshop.