[Corpora-List] Written Essay Corpus (graded?)

[Jeremiah Mcghee]

Scott,

You might want to check out Susan Conrad's The Viking CORPUS of Student and
Academic Writing from Portland State University. I was unable to find much
info on the web outside this pdf,
http://www.ling.pdx.edu/ling_newsletter_SP07.pdf , but based on a
presentation I attended the viking corpus seems to fit your needs closely.

Jeremiah McGhee
Brigham Young University

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:32 AM, scott crossley <sacrossley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Corpora List,
>
> We are trying to track down a corpus (or corpora) of student essays
> written in English. Ultimately, the best scenario is if they were also
> graded,based on specific criteria, but we realize this is unlikely. We
> are looking for any and all proficiency levels and grade levels
> (through college) and are more interested in first language samples
> then second language samples (we have a copy of the ICLE). Any help
> you might have in tracking such a collection would be greatly
> appreciated. Free corpora are great, but we are willing to buy the
> corpora as well
>
> Thanks so much one and all,
>
> --
> Scott Crossley, Ph.D.
> Linguistics/TESOL
>
> Department of English
> Mississippi State University
> http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/esl.html
> (662) 325-2355
>
> Institute for Intelligent Systems
> University of Memphis
> http://mnemosyne.csl.psyc.memphis.edu/iis/
>
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