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Acknowledgements
A large number of people contributed in different ways to the production of this book, although all responsibility for any mistakes remains ours alone.
We would like to thank the following for their permission to use extracts from the lectures that were originally recorded as part of the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus:
Prof Michael Utton, Prof Alan Roberts (Rennes Business School, France), Dr Steve Wiggins, Alan Rowley, Dr Clare Furneaux, Dr Elizabeth Gaffan, Dr Colin Beardsley, Prof Peter Roach and Dr Rupert Loader.
In addition we would like to thank Shelagh Tonkyn for permission to use an extract from a lecture on magistrates’ courts given at the University of Reading, and acknowledge the influence of the ideas of Beverly Fairfax on features of lecture introductions in Unit 2, and those of Tony Lynch on ideas on note-taking in Unit 4 of this book.
Our colleagues, Dr Paul Thompson and Sarah Creer, were very helpful in making the BASE corpus available and accessible to us, and in suggesting suitable lectures from the corpus.
The following colleagues gave invaluable feedback on parts of this book, and their contribution is gratefully acknowledged: Emma Grenside, Bruce Howell, Anne Pallant, John Slaght, Lucy Watson and Sebastian Watkins. We would also like to thank Nicola Taylor and her in-sessional students for giving us the opportunity to trial some of the material in the book.
Colin Campbell and Jonathan Smith, March 2012
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