
Me in the spotlight: The art of self-presentation
Dear colleague, we are absolutely sure that your skills, competencies, interests, and achievements are hard to count! Which makes it infinitely more challenging to squeeze them into a short CV - not to mention a tiny conference bio.

Hit the journal - right on target
Choosing a journal for publication is becoming an increasingly daunting task - what with growing search opportunities, on the one hand, and recent limitations for Russian scholars, on the other. We try to help our colleagues by keeping this issue in focus and offering multiple perspectives.

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.

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?

Writing techniques: AI vs. HI or AI with HI?
Now that the initial enthusiasm (as well as shock, denial, and bargaining 🙂) about the advent of AI has faded, we are all trying to evaluate its pros and cons and decide what AI is good for and what had better be left to HI.

Academic precision as a path to visibility
We are all aware that in order to communicate our research results to the global academia we have to adopt the academic register. But what does it really mean and why is it essential for increasing our credibility and visibility?

Identity beyond accent: Harnessing cultural differences
This semester, Tatiana Skopintseva’s series of workshops on cross-cultural communication provided AWC visitors with an opportunity to discuss identity, cultural diversity, and effective communication strategies.

“I was very impressed that academic writing in English is so different from the Russian one.”
That is feedback from one of the participants’ of the course "Basics of Writing an Empirical Research Article in English." And what about you? Are you aware of the differences between the English and Russian academic writing traditions?

Building bridges to international publications
This fall the AWC had a unique opportunity to invite a world-renowned specialist in research writing to share her experience with our colleagues in a series of workshops.
