2.1: Read the introductory home page

The home page the title refers to is the home page of Academic Vocabulary Exercises. This home page explains how Coxhead produced a corpus of the 570 most-frequently used words in academic English and the importance of being able to use and understand these.

"If you know the General Service List, or GSL, which is considered to contain the 2,000 most important words in basic English, and then learn the AWL, your understanding of the vocabulary found in academic texts will increase by 10%."

This website also contains all the academic words, divided into 10 lists. Ranging from list 1, which contains the most frequently used academic words, up to list 10, which contains the least frequently used.

As we discovered during the self-editing step, using academic words is a major problem to me. And therefore, this website could be of great importance to my progress.