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The Malmö University-Chalmers Corpus of Writing As A Process

The document summarizes the purposes and contents of the Malmö University-Chalmers Corpus of Writing as a Process (MUCH corpus). The MUCH corpus aims to facilitate the study of writing processes through multiple drafts of student and PhD texts tagged with writing and feedback processes, rhetorical and linguistic structures. It includes 500,000 words in initial pilot version and will eventually include over 1.2 million words. The unique design of capturing drafting process presents challenges around structuring the corpus, determining appropriate metadata and interfaces to best serve researchers.

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The Malmö University-Chalmers Corpus of Writing As A Process

The document summarizes the purposes and contents of the Malmö University-Chalmers Corpus of Writing as a Process (MUCH corpus). The MUCH corpus aims to facilitate the study of writing processes through multiple drafts of student and PhD texts tagged with writing and feedback processes, rhetorical and linguistic structures. It includes 500,000 words in initial pilot version and will eventually include over 1.2 million words. The unique design of capturing drafting process presents challenges around structuring the corpus, determining appropriate metadata and interfaces to best serve researchers.

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MUCH

The Malm University-Chalmers Corpus of Writing as a Process


Purposes Our contribution Challenges
To build a drafts corpus to The MUCH corpus: The unique design presents
facilitate the study of writing includes multiple drafts of several challenges, for example:
processes from different student texts How do we structure and
perspectives; to study features, tags both writing and format the corpus to fit
such as feedback, argumentation feedback processes current archiving standards?
techniques and rhetorical tags both rhetorical and What kind of of metadata
structures; and to use the corpus linguistic structures should be included?
for the teaching of academic brings together composition What kind of interface best
writing studies, EFL studies and serves the researcher and
corpus linguistics user community?
To what extent can existing
The corpus Tagging a feedback sequence
tagging systems be used, and
1. First draft, PhD
Pilot version of 500,000 words student 2. Comments from what new tags need to be
made up of three drafts of: Long chain n-3 poly- two PhD students devised for our material?
saturated fatty acids A: I think it is better
400 student texts (LC n-3 PUFA), to define them. The team
B: Are these known
50 PhD student texts especially EPA and
DHA found in by your readers?
Andreas Eriksson, Chalmers, Gothenburg
Damian Finnegan, Asko Kauppinen, Maria Wiktorsson,
Peer and teacher comments Anna Wrnsby, Malm University, Malm
Peter Withers, MaxPlanck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Self-reflective comments 3. Revised draft (changes underlined)
Long chain n-3 polysaturated fatty acids (LC
Nijmegen
Contact: [email protected],
Complete corpus: n-3 PUFA), especially EPA (eicosapentaenoic [email protected]
acid) and DHA (docosapentaenoic acid) Funding: the initial phase of the project is supported by
approximately 1.2 million words found in the Crafoord Foundation, Lund, Sweden

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