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.
AWC Welcome day – 2022
The traditional beginning of an academic year, the AWC Welcome Day, gathered 120 participants. We can proudly say that it was in fact a mini-conference!
Highlights of the year 2021-2022
The AWC is back, ready to offer educational services, both old and new. Develop your research writing skills with us!
Crash course “Action Research Venture”
The AWC Director Svetlana Suchkova developed and ran a special course for the faculty of the National University of Science and Technology MISIS.
Adapting to different academic writing traditions
The key to writing a good academic text is to be aware of the academic culture and expectations of your audience. And it poses a challenge if you belong to another culture and your background is different.
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.
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.