Getting rid of Runglish
Naturally, Russian speakers of English are bound to bring some of their mother tongue into English. And mistakes happen.
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In search of logical fallacies
Most of us enjoy playing games that require logic, but from time to time we can get into a logical trap placed in ads and speeches. Have you got a trained eye for logical fallacies? Do you teach students how to avoid them in academic writing?
Linking devices: myths debunked
One of the key features of a well-written academic text is coherence and cohesion. But what makes a text coherent? Linking words certainly play an important role. The texts may seem illogical and unclear to the reader if linking devices are missing or, on the contrary, used in such abundance that the original idea just gets lost
Effective emailing: How to write letters that achieve goals
The course "Advanced Emailing: How to Be Polite Yet Effective", which the AWC HSE ran for the second time this term, is still in demand.
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Watch the Academic Writing Center's online workshops on YouTube
The recordings of the AWC online workshops with international academic writing experts Ron Matinez and Talinn Phillips are available on YouTube now
Accent or no accent?
What does “correct pronunciation” mean? This and many other questions were in the focus of the course “My Fair Accent,” which took place at the Academic Writing Center.
Research article and beyond
International collaboration and communication at the Academic Writing Center
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English syntax: humanities vs. hard sciences
At the online workshop held by the AWC, the trainer Irina Kostyukovich demonstrated the variety in sentence structure and the disciplinary differences.