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color=#000080 size=2>Dear Charles, Scott, and others,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=572570614-29042008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080 size=2>><FONT color=#000000>The UK assignments will be a great
source of information about the differences in British and American >writing
in a single genre. Now we just need a similar American one (and an Australian,
Canadian, etc....)</FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=572570614-29042008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080 size=2>As for student academic writing in an American context,
MICUSP (the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers, <A
href="http://www.micusp.org">www.micusp.org</A>) may be what you are looking
for. MICUSP is a collection of A(andA-)graded writing samples (target size 1.6
million words) by final-year undergraduate and first to final year graduate
students in select departments at the university of Michigan. Unfortunately, the
corpus is not ready to be distributed yet since we are still in the process of
collecting and encoding student papers. We will probably only be able to release
MICUSP in about a year's time. I will certainly keep the Corpora
community informed about how the project develops and when MICUSP is going to be
released. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=572570614-29042008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080 size=2>With best wishes from Ann Arbor,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=572570614-29042008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080 size=2>Ute </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=572570614-29042008><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000080 size=2></DIV></FONT></SPAN>
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size=2>***************************************************************************</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Dr. Ute Römer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Director of the Applied Corpus
Linguistics Unit<BR>English Language Institute<BR>University of
Michigan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Email: <A
href="mailto:uroemer@umich.edu"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>uroemer@umich.edu</FONT></A><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2> <BR>Phone:
+1 734 763 7133 </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Fax: +1 734 763 0369
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><A
href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/</A> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><A
href="http://www.uteroemer.com/">http://www.uteroemer.com</A>
<BR>MICASE: <A
href="http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm">http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm</A> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>MICUSP: </FONT><A
href="http://www.micusp.org/"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>http://www.micusp.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>
<BR>Generation 1.5: <A
href="http://gen15.micusp.org/">http://gen15.micusp.org/</A> </FONT><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2> <BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><STRONG>Surface mail address:
<BR></STRONG>Dr. Ute Römer <BR>University of Michigan <BR>English Language
Institute <BR>500 E. Washington Street <BR>Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2028 <BR>USA
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> corpora-bounces@uib.no
[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Charles
Hall<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:19 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
corpora@uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Corpora-List] Written Essay Corpus
(graded?): now we needother 'native' varieties too<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Thanks for that information about the BAWE. The UK assignments will
be a great source of information about the differences in British and American
writing in a single genre. Now we just need a similar American one (and an
Australian, Canadian, etc....)<BR><BR>Charles<BR><BR><B><I>jasper holmes
<jasper.holmes@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR><BR>It
consists of 2800 assignments submitted to one of 3 UK universities<BR>and
graded above 65%. Unfortunately for you, we don't have any lower<BR>grades,
but those we do have are graded in two bands: 'Merit'
and<BR>'Distinction'.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR><BR>*************<BR><BR>Charles
Hall, Ph.D., dr. h. c.<BR>University of Memphis <BR>Applied Linguistics and
EFL/ESL <BR><BR>During 2007-2008: <BR><BR>Senior English Language Fellow for
Language4Law at the CEELI Institute<BR>Havlickovy sady 58 <BR>120 00 Prague,
the Czech Republic<BR><BR>www.abanet.org/ceeli/special_projects/ceeli_inst
<BR>www.l4law.org <BR><BR>Czech mobile telephone number: +420 739 37 03 45
<BR>Internationally accessible American telephone number: 901.313.4496
<BR>Skype: charlesmemphis
<BR><BR>charleshall@rocketmail.com</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>