This paper introduces the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP) as a new resource that will enable researchers and teachers of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to investigate the written discourse of highly advanced student writers whose written assignments have been awarded the grade ‘A’. The usefulness of two aspects of the design of the corpus — variation across discipline and across student level — is illustrated by two case studies, one on attribution and one on recurrent phraseological patterns. The first case study investigates how references to the work of others are realized and to what extent disciplinary variation exists in unpublished academic writing by students. The second study examines the use of phraseological items (n-grams and phrase-frames) by students at four different levels of undergraduate and graduate study. The paper closes with a discussion of the results of both case studies and describes future avenues for MICUSP-based research.
Barbara, Siu Wing Yee, Muhammad Afzaal & Hessah Saleh Aldayel
2024. A corpus-based comparison of linguistic markers of stance and genre in the academic writing of novice and advanced engineering learners. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11:1
Brook O'Donnell, Matthew, Ute Römer & Nick C. Ellis
2017. At the same time : Lexical bundles in L1 and L2 university student argumentative writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 30 ► pp. 38 ff.
2017. Can Data Driven Learning address L2 writers' habitual errors with English linking adverbials?. System 69 ► pp. 26 ff.
Lee, Joseph J., Tetyana Bychkovska & James D. Maxwell
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Leedham, Maria & Guozhi Cai
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Marti, Leyla, Selahattin Yilmaz & Yasemin Bayyurt
2019. Reporting research in applied linguistics: The role of nativeness and expertise. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 40 ► pp. 98 ff.
2012. From student hard drive to web corpus (part 2): the annotation and online distribution of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP). Corpora 7:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Park, Kwanghyun
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2023. Corpus Linguistics as a Pedagogical Tool. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Yoon, Hyung-Jo & Ute Römer
2020. Quantifying Disciplinary Voices: An Automated Approach to Interactional Metadiscourse in Successful Student Writing. Written Communication 37:2 ► pp. 208 ff.
Çandarlı, Duygu
2022. Combining Corpus‐Based Methods With Interviews in Applied Linguistics Research. In Research Methods in Language Teaching and Learning, ► pp. 166 ff.
Çandarlı, Duygu, Yasemin Bayyurt & Leyla Martı
2015. Authorial presence in L1 and L2 novice academic writing: Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 20 ► pp. 192 ff.
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