Workshop "Academic writing: improving your sentence structure"

To improve your academic writing, before working at the level of the whole text, you need to understand what possible errors arise at the sentence level. In the academic writing, poor sentence structure may result in the misunderstanding and confusion. Inability to use the variety of sentences or to use them correctly might create the unprofessional impression of the writer. In this workshop, you will learn to recognize these errors, to distinguish between them and to find strategies to avoid them. First, we will look at the different sentence types (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences) and then at the most common problems with the sentences, such as sentence fragments, run-on sentences, loose and choppy sentences. We will also consider the excessive subordination, parallel structures, and sentence variety. The workshop will suit teachers of various experience and background.

Tutor: Ekaterina Redkina, a psychologist and a qualified EFL teacher with more than 10-year experience. She is CELTA, TKT CLIL, IHCAM and Delta (M1-2) holder, and a Fulbright scholar. Currently, she teaches academic and professionally oriented skills to Russian psychology students at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Her primary interests are CLIL, ESP, EAP, lesson frameworks, Syllabus, material design, and the use of IT in the ELT practice.

Working language: English
Time: 25 April 2019, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: Myasnitskaya, Bldg. 4, Room 306
Registration link: https://goo.gl/tzP347