Workshop "Punctuation tour"

We keep receiving requests about organizing a workshop on punctuation. To meet that need, we invite you to the workshop that is focused on basic punctuation conventions in American writing culture. Unlike Russian punctuation, there are no rules carved in stone in English. The punctuation usage largely depends on the writer’s intention,  language variant, and style conventions. It is important that we explore this very complicated issue to get the message across clearly.  Punctuation matters as it may change the meaning of the text completely. Participants will learn basic rules and do a lot of exercises. Come to have fun while playing with punctuation marks.

Speaker: Svetlana Suchkova, Ph.D., associate professor, a teacher of English, teacher trainer, Cambridge examiner, and director of HSE Academic Writing Center.  She has widely published in the field of ELT methodology. She authored a number of EFL course books for Russian university students and academics, including English for Academics series (CUP) и How to Write a Research Article (Nauka). She has participated with presentations and workshops in numerous national and international conferences. She is a Vice-president of the National Writing Centers Consortium.

Target audience: HSE teachers, researchers, and graduate students
Language: English
Date & Time: January 24, 17:30 - 19:30
Location: online