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Hi! Try lextutor.ca :) Paula ************************************ Paula Haapanen Coordinating Lecturer - English Lappeenranta University of Technology Language Centre PO Box 20 53851 Lappeenranta, Finland Phone: + 358 5 621 2213 (direct) -----Original Message----- From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing - discussions on behalf of Sarah Brewer Sent: Fri 7/8/2011 13:49 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Free online databases of academic writing? Dear Ida, The BAWE corpus might partially meet your needs. This 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) > and across four levels of study (undergraduate and taught masters > level). Thirty-five disciplines are represented. The opening page of the website says that .... > The corpus is available free of charge to non-commercial researchers > who agree to the conditions of use and who register with the Oxford > Text Archive. This is the link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/bawe/ I believe there are samples of L1 and L2, but am not sure if you can distinguish these. In terms of 'scholarly' writing, perhaps simply comparing student writing with samples of journal articles would work? Best wishes, Sarah ******************************************** Dr Sarah Brewer EAP Lecturer and Research, Development and Publications Co-ordinator International Study and Language Centre | University of Reading Whiteknights | PO Box 218 | Reading | RG6 6AA Tel: +44 (0)118 378 4289 http://www.reading.ac.uk/islc | [log in to unmask] On 08/07/2011 09:43, Ida Klitgård wrote: > I would like to direct my students to free, accessible online > databases of academic writing in both the humanities, social sciences > and natural sciences, but I cannot find any on the net. I would need > corpora of both student writing (both in English as L1 and L2) as well > as corpora of scholarly writing in order for us to do various searches > in class. > I would be grateful for references to such databases out there, if > they exist. > Thanks. > Best regards, > Ida. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Ida Klitgård, ph.d., dr.phil. > Lektor i engelsk > Roskilde Universitet > Language and Intercultural Communication Services (LICS) > Institut for Kultur og Identitet, 03.2.4. > Postboks 260 > Universitetsvej 1 > 4000 Roskilde > Tlf.: 46 74 24 67 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Web: http://magenta.ruc.dk/lics/akademisk_engelsk/Underviser_/ > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Ida Klitgård, PhD, Dr.Phil. (Habil.Doctor) > Associate Professor in English > Roskilde University > Language and Intercultural Communication Services (LICS) > Department of Culture and Identity, 03.2.4. > P.O. Box 260 > Universitetsvej 1 > DK-4000 Roskilde > Denmark > Tel: 46 74 24 67 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Website: http://magenta.ruc.dk/lics_en/english_academic/idak/