MICUSP Kibbitzers
These small MICUSP-based research projects provide interesting facts about some key features of advanced student academic writing. They tell you, for example, how students who all received an A for their papers connect sentences or how they use so-called “scare quotes”.
The originator of the Kibbitzer pages was Tim Johns (Birmingham University). Each kibbitzer page contains the discussion of a language problem, supported by data from MICUSP.
What are scare-quotes? What kinds of scare-quotes are there? Does their frequency vary across disciplines and levels? Find out in this kibbitzer!
Which sentence connectors are most frequent in MICUSP? Find out in this kibbitzer!
These tutorials show you how to use MICUSP Simple and how to browse for and search in MICUSP papers.
A short history of this project.
Read about what types of academic student papers are included in MICUSP and how we labeled them.
These small MICUSP-based research projects provide interesting facts about some key features of advanced student academic writing. They tell you, for example, how students who all received an A for their papers connect sentences or how they use so-called “scare quotes”.
What should you know about academic writing? Read some interesting studies here.