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?
How to express the author’s position through modality in an academic text
Modal verbs are one of the first language means we learn when studying the English language. However, as we craft an academic text, we have to ask ourselves if modal verbs and other means of modality are as common and appropriate in the academic style as they are in everyday communication.
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Building confidence in public speaking
What do you think is the most common fear, regardless of gender, age, or country? Fear of public speaking is a strong contender: according to various sources, it affects up to 77% of the world's population. This is probably why the “Public Speaking Crash Course”, developed by Zhenya Bakin specially for HSE researchers, has remained popular with AWC visitors for several years.