AWC Welcome day – 2025
On September 24, the new academic year started at the Academic Writing Center! And, as tradition goes, we began with the AWC Welcome Day. This year, our colleagues from HSE University covered a wide range of topics — from strategies for overcoming psychological barriers in writing to the art of creating presentations and other visual materials.
We have gathered the most memorable insights from the workshops — both from our team and from participants:
A break for inspiration: The Academic Writing Center wraps up the season
As we are preparing for the summer break, we are delighted to share the highlights of the academic year 2024-2025.
Academic presentation booster: From PechaKucha to posters and more
Are you a frequent conference speaker? Are you determined not only to spread your ideas but also to make an impression? Check out the AWC new course that we launched this spring.
The author’s voice in sciences and humanities: Insights from a researcher
The author’s stance is a topic we regularly focus on, and this semester we invited our visitors to look at it from a linguist’s perspective.
Course in a couple of words: “Useful, interesting, opportunity - thank you!”
Every teacher’s dream is a motivated, bright, and active student who is eager to learn more and who you can also learn from. The Academic Writing Center and the trainer Tatiana Golechkova were lucky to gather a team of dream students for the course “Lecturing in English: Teaching vs. Learning.”
Boosting your academic writing with AWC
We know that many of you are experienced authors and have published papers in international journals. Still, there is always room for improvement. How to boost your research writing skills and take them to the next level?
Mastering machine translation: 13 steps to success
Machine translation has become an indispensable tool, even for language professionals. However, its quality often leaves much to be desired. The main challenge lies in the differences in structure and syntax between languages - the issue that artificial intelligence has yet to fully overcome. Can this problem be solved?