(The British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus is a collaboration between the universities of Warwick, Reading and Oxford Brookes. It was collected as part of the project, 'An Investigation of Genres of Assessed Writing in British Higher Education'. The project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. (2004 - 2007 project number RES-000-23-0800)
The corpus contains just under 3000 good-standard student assignments (6,506,995 words). Holdings are fairly evenly distributed across four broad disciplinary areas (Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences) and across four levels of study (undergraduate and taught masters level). Thirty-five disciplines are represented.
Information about discipline and level is provided in the header for each assignment file, alongside other types of contextual information which did not influence collection policy such as gender, year of birth, native speaker status, and years of UK secondary education.
The corpus is available free of charge to researchers who agree to the conditions of use and who register with the Oxford Text Archive.
Please contact h.nesi@coventry.ac.uk for further information, or if you have any queries or comments relating to the project.
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