Siân Alsop|Hilary Nesi
Issues in the development of the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus
Brooke|Coventry University
british academic written english bawe corpus collection texts produced undergraduate masters students wide range disciplines assessment part taught degree programmes undertaken uk majority contributors corpus mother tongue speakers english order included corpus assignment judged proficient assessors contributors discipline regardless writers mother tongue corpus contains therefore texts met departmental requirements given level study university writing programmes typically aimed undergraduate masters students would useful writing tutors know student assignment genres linguistic features successful writing undergraduate masters level however largescale descriptive studies academic writing focus published publicly accessible texts learner essays general academic topics probably practical difficulties associated collecting large amounts welldocumented student output paper charts experience collecting data bawe corpus highlighting problems encountered solutions chose view facilitating task future developers academic student writing corpora