(BAWE) British Academic Written English Corpus

About BAWE

The British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE) was collected as part of the project, 'An Investigation of Genres of Assessed Writing in British Higher Education'. The project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. (2004 - 2007 project number RES-000-23-0800). 

The corpus is a record of proficient university-level student writing at the turn of the 21st century. This Excel Spreadsheet contains information about the corpus holdings. A more detailed spreadsheet is available from the Oxford Text Archive. It contains just under 3000 good-standard student assignments (6,506,995 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 main disciplines are represented. Parsed versions of the corpus have been created by Phil Durrant using the Stanford Core NLP parser, and are available here:  https://phildurrant.net/parsed-bawe-corpus/