Course "Paragraph as a Text Building Block"

Many people think that it is quite easy to write a paragraph in English if you know grammar and vocabulary quite well. However, that is not the case. One has to clearly understand how an English paragraph can be organized. Due to cultural reasons and writing conventions, the development of ideas in an English paragraph differs from that in a Russian paragraph. To raise such awareness, we are offering a one-day course devoted to this fundamental unit of any text. We will look into different structural types of paragraphs, pay attention to writing the topic sentence, and identify how to make the text coherent and cohesive. We will learn how to put forward ideas effectively and concisely, organize the text into easy-to-perceive blocks, and make smooth and logical transitions between the paragraphs.

Trainer: Tatiana Martseva, Ph.D. in Germanic languages, Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, HSE University, holds CPE, DELTA (Cambridge), FTBE (Pearson) international certificates. Tatiana has over 20 years of experience in teaching English for specific purposes, academic writing, presentation skills, cross-cultural communication, linguistics, and country studies. Her areas of research interest include modern English language, stylistics, teacher training, and digital technologies in teaching.