Revised and updated throughout, this book: takes a highly practical approach, now with new tasks and the latest software features; fosters autonomous learning by demonstrating how to solve everyday difficulties in word choice and grammar; places a special emphasis on the use of corpora to explore rhetorical strategies; introduces the reader to five corpus tools (SkELL, Lextutor, COCA, MICUSP and AntConc); offers a new section on DIY corpora, including basic principles and a step-by-step guide to building a corpus, with an introduction to AntConc; now includes a 'Further Reading' section for each chapter.