[Corpora-List] corpus of essays in English

[Ute Römer]

Dear Katya, 

The Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP) may be what
you're looking for (thankyou, Chris, for mentioning it!). MICUSP (still
under development at the University of Michigan English Language Institute)
is a collection of A(and A-)-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 (18 disciplines altogether; see
www.micusp.org). 

As I said, we are still in the process of compiling the corpus (hoping to
finish data collection by the end of 2008) and will probably only be able to
release it in about a year or so. Our plan is to make MICUSP freely
accessible to the corpus research and EAP teaching community, just like
MICASE, the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/). 

Please get in touch if you have any further questions about MICUSP. 

All the best,
Ute   


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Dr. Ute Römer
Director of the Applied Corpus Linguistics Unit
English Language Institute
University of Michigan
Email: uroemer at umich.edu 
Phone: +1 734 763 7133 
Fax: +1 734 763 0369  
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/ 
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MICASE: http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm 
MICUSP: http://www.micusp.org  
Generation 1.5: http://gen15.micusp.org/  
 
Surface mail address: 
Dr. Ute Römer 
University of Michigan 
English Language Institute 
500 E. Washington Street 
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2028 
USA 
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] 
> On Behalf Of Christopher Tribble
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:28 PM
> To: 'Katya'; corpora at uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] corpus of essays in English
> 
>  
> Try MICUSP: http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/eli/eli1/micusp/Contact.htm
> 
> In the UK there is also:
> http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/celte/research/bawe
> 
> Best of luck
> 
> C:
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> Dr Christopher Tribble
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] 
> On Behalf Of Katya
> Sent: 11 April 2008 15:28
> To: corpora at uib.no
> Subject: [Corpora-List] corpus of essays in English
> 
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I wonder if anyone could help. I need to find a corpus of 
> academic (preferably American) English which contains native speakers'
> (students') essays.
> 
> I would also find helpful frequencies of word categories 
> extracted from this kind of corpus if these are available.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Katya Arshavskaya
> 
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