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Nesi, Hilary, Sharpling, Gerard and Ganobcsik-Williams, Lisa (2004) Student papers across the curriculum : designing and developing a corpus of British student writing. Computers and Composition, 21 (4). pp. 439-450. doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2004.08.003
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2004.08.003
Abstract
This paper reports on a collaborative project, currently being carried out by the Centre for English Language Teacher Education and the Warwick Writing Programme at the University of Warwick, England, to compile a multimillion-word corpus of student writing. Since May 2001, we have collected samples of proficient written coursework produced by students at all levels and in a range of disciplines. We believe this student writing collection will eventually provide an invaluable database for use by researchers and writing teachers, enabling them to identify and describe, in a systematic way, the characteristics of assigned work across disciplines and levels of study. Our corpus is confined to shorter assignments assessed within departments—the most common form of student writing, but unpublished and therefore generally unavailable to researchers. This paper describes the project, and explains the rationale for developing the corpus. It also considers the corpus’ potential role as a resource for research and teaching within and across subject disciplines.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Computers and Composition | ||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd | ||||
| ISSN: | 87554615 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2004 | ||||
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| Volume: | 21 | ||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 439-450 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.compcom.2004.08.003 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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