Education

What do we recommend to those who have never written an academic text in English but would like to give it a try? Certainly courses at the HSE Academic Writing Center.

It won’t be an exaggeration to say that we live in a digital world characterized by constantly changing trends in communication. The academic community is no exception. That is why we chose new trends in disseminating research as a topic for our workshop that took place earlier this week.

Expressing original ideas persuasively appears to be one of the most crucial skills for a researcher. This week, the AWC held a workshop on authorial voice and authenticity in an academic text.

One of the hottest issues we often discuss at The Academic Writing Center is cross-cultural communication. We hosted another online workshop on cultural intricacies of professional communication with the virtual specialist from RELO (Regional English Language Office of the U.S. Embassy) Tamrika Khvtisiashvili.

Today,  February 13, marks the start of the International Writing Centers Week.

The Academic Writing Center ran an online workshop that dealt with the phenomenon of failure, its significance and interpretation in different cultures. 

How can punctuation marks influence the meaning of a sentence? How can an Oxford comma help you avoid embarrassment? These questions make many of us curious, that is why we started the new semester with a workshop on punctuation “Traffic signals for safe driving,” which gathered more punctuation geeks than we expected.

The Academic Writing Center held a unique event on December 16-18 – Writers’ Retreat. The project was initiated by several HSE researchers, who participated in a course at the AWC in spring and were willing to continue writing together.