BAWE Corpus Search

Welcome to the British Academic Written English (BAWE) Corpus

The BAWE corpus is a collection of student assignments of a good standard, at all levels from first year undergraduate to masters degree, and in many disciplines. Further details of its composition, publications etc. can be found at http://www.coventry.ac.uk/bawe

Researchers are free to quote short passages from the BAWE corpus of up to 100 running words, with a total of 200 running words from any given assignment. Use should be acknowledged using the following form of words:

The data used in this study came from the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus. The corpus was developed at the Universities of Oxford Brookes, Reading and Warwick under the directorship of Hilary Nesi. Corpus development was assisted by funding from the ESRC (RES-000-23-0800).

Please inform the corpus developers of all presentations and publications arising from the analysis of BAWE

To search the corpus, enter a query and click search. You can also optionally filter and sort your results.

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To search the corpus, enter a query in the text box. A query is the text that you want to match, and can include one or more words. Wildcards can be used.

Wildcards

To match 'any single character', use the ? wildcard
For example, ?at will match cat, hat, mat and so on.

To match 'any part-word', use the * wildcard inside a word
For example, th* will match the, this, there, therefore and so on.
To take another example, m*r will match motor, member, minor and so on.

To match 'any single word', use the * wildcard surrounded by spaces
For example, the * house will match the big house, the nice house and so on.

To match 'up to two words', use the ** wildcards all surround by spaces
For example, the ** house will match the very big house, the vicar's house and so on.

To match 'up to three words', use the *** wildcard in a similar fashion.

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