British Academic Written English Corpus
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: The BAWE corpus contains 2761 pieces of proficient assessed student writing, ranging in length from about 500 words to about 5000 words. Holdings are fairly evenly distributed across four broad disciplinary areas (Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences) adn across four levels of study (undergraduate and taught masters level). Thirty-five disciplines are represented. The assignments have been annotated using a system devised in accordance with the TEI guidelines. There is a dtd file which must be kept in the same folder as the corpus files, named tei_bawe.dtd and the holdings are described in an Excel spreadsheet 'BAWE.xls'. The transcription and mark-up conventions are described in the BAWE manual document, which is in PDF format.
Authors: Hilary Nesi, Sheena Gardner, Paul Thompson, Paul Wickens
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3042660731