"Adding elegance to your research paper" Workshop

The word ‘elegance’ is mainly associated with literary prose or poetry but not with academic texts. While writing a research paper in English, scholars often aim to create a concise, clear, and coherent text that is grammatically correct. However, in the pursuit of grammar accuracy, scholars often neglect different ways of expressing ideas creatively to get these ideas stuck in the reader’s mind. The presenter will share some tips on how to make an academic text elegant. During the workshop, participants will be engaged in hands-on activities aimed at employing such techniques as coordination and parallelism that will add a flash of elegance to the text and enhance the reader’s interest in the paper.

Tutor: Valeria Evdash is currently the Director of the Center for Academic Writing 'Impulse', the University of Tyumen. Prior to establishing the Center, she worked as the Head of English language department of the Regional Institute for International Cooperation, UTMN. She has had more than 20 years of EFL teaching. She also works as a teacher trainer. She was the British Council teacher-trainer (2012-2015) in Russia. She is a member of the Russian National Association of Teachers of English (NATE Russia) and the head of Tyumen English Language Teachers' Association (TumELTA). She is also an alumna of the U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs. She has participated with presentations in national and international conferences. Her areas of expertise are Continuous Professional Development, English language acquisition & methodology, and academic writing.

Working language: English
Time: 21 November 2018, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: 13 Myasnitskaya, Bldg. 4, Room 306 (might be subject to changes)
Registration link: https://goo.gl/forms/feQ9LOPfHSlKDuhy2