Overcoming difficulties together: How to make peer-writing groups work?
This week we ran the final workshop in the series led by Dr. Leslie Dupont. This time, Dr. Dupont invited colleagues from HSE University and other Russian universities to discuss effective writing group organization. The topic is of great relevance to all authors and researchers because peer reviewing does not only help develop writing skills, but also contributes to professional growth and strengthens motivation.
Genre insights: Analyzing the book review
The Academic Writing Center continues a series of online workshops with Leslie Dupont, a writing expert from the University of Arizona. The second workshop was focused on the book review as a genre.
AWC Welcome day – 2023
How did your academic year begin? For us, it kicked off with the AWC Welcome Day, which featured six speakers and had 115 participants - isn’t that a good start?
How to build a thesis: A dialogic approach
Building argumentation always requires effort, and it is especially true if you are writing in a foreign language.
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.
From reviewers about reviews
On January 25 the HSE AWC hosted its first event in 2022 – the panel discussion "From reviewers, to reviewers, about reviews."