The article is published in the collection: National corpus of the Russian language and problems of humanitarian education . / Edited by H. R. Goodness . - M. , 2007. — C. 136-149. The study of the discipline "Active processes in the modern Russian language" (included in the state educational standard of the specialty "Publishing and editing") is unthinkable without constant recourse to a variety of linguistic facts. the teacher has to constantly update the material in order to adequately interpret the emerging forms and values Of course, for the methodological support of this course, a variety of texts are needed, including speech works. Another complexity of the subject is the need to assess the prevalence of a language phenomenon.