MICUSP Paper Classification
Read about what types of academic student papers are included in MICUSP and how we labeled them.
The goal of the MICUSP paper classification was to enable corpus users to browse for and search in papers of a particular type, e.g. research papers or reports.
The paper classification system was developed through a series of interlocking steps by a group of scholars and graduate students in the fields of corpus linguistics, genre analysis, EAP pedagogy, and language testing. The development of a classification system was essentially data-driven:
The result of this procedure was a list of seven paper categories (in alphabetical order):
To see our definitions and text type examples for each of these categories, please follow the link below.
Definitions and text type examples for each of the MICUSP paper categories
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.