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Articles in articles
For many people learning English, articles seem to be a constant source of frustration. This grammar phenomenon causes trouble especially for those whose mother tongue doesn’t have articles.
On logic, structure, and your authorial voice
Ever felt frustrated with a paper that just won’t come together — where your argument falls apart, rewrites never end, and reviewer comments keep piling up? You’re not alone.
Through the editor’s eyes: How to avoid desk rejects
Desk-reject is a nightmare of many researchers, do you agree?
How not to get lost in communication
What do good jokes have in common? Just one principle of effective communication taken to the point of absurdity.
How does AI change the writing instructor’s roles?
That is one of the questions that was widely discussed at the world biggest forum on academic writing - The 21st Symposium on Second Language Writing. It was held in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 23-25, 2025.
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:
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.