[Corpora-List] Written Essay Corpus (graded?): now we need other 'native' varieties too

[Charles Hall]

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....)

Charles

jasper holmes <jasper.holmes at gmail.com> wrote:

It consists of 2800 assignments submitted to one of 3 UK universities
and graded above 65%. Unfortunately for you, we don't have any lower
grades, but those we do have are graded in two bands: 'Merit' and
'Distinction'.





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