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

[Ute Römer]

Dear Charles, Scott, and others,
 
>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....)

As for student academic writing in an American context, MICUSP (the Michigan
Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers, www.micusp.org) 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. 
 
With best wishes from Ann Arbor,
Ute 
 
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Dr. Ute Römer
Director of the Applied Corpus Linguistics Unit
English Language Institute
University of Michigan
Email:  <mailto:uroemer at umich.edu> uroemer at umich.edu 
Phone: +1 734 763 7133 
Fax: +1 734 763 0369  
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/ 
http://www.uteroemer.com <http://www.uteroemer.com/>  
MICASE: http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm 
MICUSP:  <http://www.micusp.org/> 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 
 
 


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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
Charles Hall
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:19 PM
To: corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Written Essay Corpus (graded?): now we needother
'native' varieties too


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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Charles Hall, Ph.D., dr. h. c.
University of Memphis 
Applied Linguistics and EFL/ESL 

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