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How a foreign colleague understands your email
One of the hottest issues we often discuss at The Academic Writing Center is cross-cultural communication. We hosted another online workshop on cultural intricacies of professional communication with the virtual specialist from RELO (Regional English Language Office of the U.S. Embassy) Tamrika Khvtisiashvili.
International Writing Centers Week 2023 #IWCW23
Today, February 13, marks the start of the International Writing Centers Week.
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Unlocking the potential of failure
The Academic Writing Center ran an online workshop that dealt with the phenomenon of failure, its significance and interpretation in different cultures.
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PUNctuate or not PUNctuate?
How can punctuation marks influence the meaning of a sentence? How can an Oxford comma help you avoid embarrassment? These questions make many of us curious, that is why we started the new semester with a workshop on punctuation “Traffic signals for safe driving,” which gathered more punctuation geeks than we expected.
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‘I Got the Kick I Needed to Finish My Paper and Feel Inspired’
From December 16–18, the HSE Academic Writing Centre held a ‘Writers’ Retreat’ aimed at giving HSE University researchers an opportunity to look at their texts from a different perspective. The participants and facilitators of the event spoke with the HSE News Service about the importance of self-editing and peer review.
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How does your audience perceive you?
This week participants of the workshop "How to ensure an effective presentation delivery" worked on techniques that help them develop public speaking skills.
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“My way to academic literacy”
The HSE AWC completed the traditional course "Language of Research Writing: From Learning to Individual Production," which has been very popular for several years.
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Revise & resubmit: How to communicate with reviewers?
On December 6, the Academic Writing Center hosted the final workshop by Christine Tardy, one of the world's best-known experts in academic writing.
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We shared the results of research the AWC conducts
On December 3-4, 2022, Svetlana Suchkova ran a workshop “To know what to ‘feed,’ we research in what they need” at the MGU international conference.
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The best Saturday ever
For me it was November 26, when I took part in the AWC one-day course “Public Speaking Crash Course” with the trainer Zhenya Bakin.