Using MICUSP in EAP Teaching
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Since MICUSP contains around 830 A-grade assignments from upper-level students in 16 different disciplines, it is a great resource for EAP instructors who are looking for model writing samples for their less advanced or less proficient writing students.
We will soon provide guidelines for teachers on how to retrieve relevant texts or text sections from MICUSP. We are also planning to create some MICUSP-based ESL/EAP teaching materials, in analogy to the teaching materials based on MICASE. In the meantime, we invite you to check out our MICUSP Kibbitzer pages which present snippets of pedagigically inspired MICUSP-based research.
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.