Table 3 Top ten most frequent content words in the SoP corpora
From: Disciplinary variations in academic promotional writing: the case of statements of purpose
| Â | The Arts Division | The Science Division | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Humanities | Business | Social Science | Engineering | Science | |
1 | Chinese (162) | social (67) | social (93) | research (105) | research (140) |
2 | language (113) | knowledge (66) | China (92) | engineering (94) | study (80) |
3 | culture (109) | university (64) | research (84) | university (86) | university (75) |
4 | English (101) | study (63) | media (70) | knowledge (59) | engineering (61) |
5 | teaching (75) | management (60) | communication (62) | study (58) | knowledge (61) |
6 | university (68) | China (52) | study (61) | time (51) | project (56) |
7 | China (66) | financial (51) | university (60) | design (48) | program (53) |
8 | literature (65) | research (50) | work (59) | system (48) | science (50) |
9 | study (65) | program (48) | Chinese (54) | work (47) | computer (46) |
10 | research (64) | work (48) | school (45) | project (46) | experience (39) |