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Student papers across the curriculum : designing and developing a corpus of British student writing

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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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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Our corpus is confined to shorter assignments assessed within departments—the most common form of student writing, but unpublished and therefore generally unavailable to researchers.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
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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2004Published
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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