Research on advanced student writing across disciplines and levels: Introducing the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-34

  Ädel, Annelie ^a   Römer, Ute ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced student writing; Attribution; English for Academic Purposes; Michigan Corpus of Upper level Student Papers (MICUSP); Phraseology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858971423     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.17.1.01ade     Document Type: Article

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