Course "Empowering Your Writing in English: Academic vs. General"
This online course aims to contribute to the enhancement of academic writing competences and raise the quality of participants’ academic texts and publications. Participants will learn the key features of writing for academic purposes, how academic texts differ from the texts written for general purposes; they will extend their repertoire of techniques allowing to write various texts for different purposes. By the end of the course, they will have written their own academic text sample of a relevant type and genre, including a research paper meant for international publication.
Trainer: Irina Titarenko, MA in Applied Linguistics for ELT (MAELT) from Lancaster University, UK. Irina is a certified teacher of English for Academic purposes (Norwich Institute for Language Education - NILE, UK, 2014) and a certified trainer in the Content and Language Integrated Learning approach (CLIL, British Council, 2012).
Dates: November 2 - December 14, 4 hours a week
Format: online via Schoology
English level requirement: B2
How do I get accepted? You should be a full-time employee from teaching or research staff at the HSE.
The course is offered on the competitive enrollment basis. Please, fill out an online registration form and write a motivation letter in English (about 300 words). Please name the types of academic texts you have to write in English, describe the difficulties you have faced when writing an academic text and explain how new skills are relevant to your teaching and / or scientific work.
For more information on how to write a strong motivation letter, please read the AWC blog.