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Navigating accent diversity
Did you know that around one-fifth of the world's population speaks English today, even though for most of them it’s not their first language? As a l lingua franca, English naturally absorbs influences from various cultures, making accents a unique marker of identity. However, no matter how diverse the accents are, we still need to understand each other. How can we ensure intelligibility? The best way is to be aware of typical pronunciation features that could create barriers to communication.
AI and academia: Bridging tradition with innovation
How should we tackle the challenges that AI presents for both science and education? What are the best ways to blend neural networks with traditional teaching methods to create effective educational products? And how can we leverage these technologies to streamline our routine tasks and beyond?
Crafting effective paragraphs for academic excellence
This semester, the Academic Writing Center menu offers three new courses. One of them is a face-to-face one-day course aimed at helping participants improve the quality of their writing through crafting logical and coherent paragraphs.
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.
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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.
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."