micusp

the Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers

Who Can Contribute?

1st and 2nd year students at the undergraduate level who speak a variety of Korean or Chinese at home, and who belong to either of these two groups:

  • a) Students who have attended between 2 and 8 years of schooling in the US or Canada and speak a variety of Korean or Chinese at home;
  • b) International students from South Korea and China whose home language is not English.
  • Earn $10

    For a contribution of one or more papers meeting our criteria, we offer $10 in the form of a gift card for Borders bookstore. Submission is electronic and secure, and from the time of reading this sentence, should take no more than 10 minutes.

    Secure & Anonymous

    Micusp 1.5 is an official IRB-approved University of Michigan research project. Participation is voluntary and we will not require or ask for any sensitive information. When completed, the web-based Micusp 1.5 database will contain no names or other identifying information. Your anonymized paper will be accessible, by subscription, only to teachers, academic researchers, and developers of language teaching materials.

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