The pilot data collected for the BAWE corpus is already being used for postgraduate research. Projects using this data are outlined below.

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PhD Topics

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"Genre transfer from MSc dissertations to published articles by Thai scientists with implications for teaching"

Issra Pramooksook

September 2003-September 2006, Supervisors:Dr Sheena Gardner and Dr Hilary Nesi, University of Warwick

The corpus data is being used for: Genre analysis of Biology assignments in the pilot study to trial the analytical framework to be used in the main study.

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"An Investigation into the Grammatical Errors in Students' L2 Writing in the English Department at Damascus University and Implications for Materials Development"

Amani Fakherah

January 2005 – January 2008, Supervisor: Dr.Sheena Gardner, University of Warwick

The corpus data is being used to: Examine and analyse the use of certain grammatical features in successful literary essays in English.

 

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 McKenny, J. (2007) A corpus-based investigation of the phraseology in various genres of written English with applications to the teaching of English for academic purposes. PhD thesis. University of Leeds

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MA Dissertations.

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"A comparative analysis of cohesive signalling nouns in NNS and NS English undergraduate legal assignments"

Richard Beal

2006, Supervisor: Dr. Hilary Nesi, University of Warwick

 

"Genre Analysis: An Investigation of Syntactical and Lexical Features in Law Student Writing from Warwick School of Law "

Alexius Mgina

2004, Supervisor: Dr.Sheena Gardner, University of Warwick

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