Building interdisciplinary bridges
MUCH: The Malmö University-Chalmers Corpus of Academic Writing as a Process
This paper describes a corpus of writing as a process (MUCH), comprising English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student texts. The corpus will contain a large number of richly annotated papers in several versions from students of different performance levels. It will also include peer and instructor feedback, as well as tools for visualising the revision process, and for analysing the writing process and the peer and instructor feedback. MUCH will make it possible to study how texts develop and change in the course of the writing process and how feedback impacts the process.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
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2.Writing studies
- 2.1Approaches in writing studies
- 2.2Corpora and their use in writing studies
- 3.MUCH planned features
- 3.1What does MUCH contribute to the writing research community?
- 4.Building MUCH
- 4.1Data description
- 4.2Data collection and processing
- 4.3Text annotation
- 4.4Data sustainability and availability
- 5.Concluding remarks
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Notes
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