"Our purpose in this manual is to establish and document useful procedures for maximizing research data, especially from classroom studies, using corpus software for data analysis and management. In non-technical language, we provide an overview of the purposes for corpus-based research and necessary procedures for corpus-based analyses with specific reference to tools used and developed at CRPP. Our goal is to help readers understand some of the distinctive features of corpus-based research and make informed decisions about whether this approach would be fruitful for their own work. " -- p. 6.