Academic writing

ACADEMIC WRITING IS …
… practical skills required to:
READ and UNDERSTAND scientific texts
To WRITE scientific texts
TALK about scientific texts
in Russian
in English
in other Eurasian languages

Basic conventions of academic writing
scientific ethics
rules of scientific communication
ethics of citation

Objectives of the discipline academic writing:
to acquaint students with the basic requirements for writing;
to engender their skills of scientific written communication;
to teach how to formulate thoughts and ideas in writing and to argue it;
to master the techniques of structuring written works;
to explain the features of essays, abstracts, articles;
to form the skills of using scientific vocabulary in the written presentation of thoughts;
to teach editorial skills.

The value of the discipline of academic writing
Students who complete this discipline and received provided by it the skills can continue to use thus skills in the following way:
when entering the educational space;
in the process of working with original sources of information;
when writing abstracts to scientific articles;
when writing any types of written academic works, properly structuring it, making references to sources and using quotations.

Skills of the student, formed as a result of the study of the academic writing discipline
To know:
grammatical and editorial rules;
complex syntactic constructions of scientific and business writing;
methods of constructing the structure of the academic text;
distinctive features of the scientific writing style;
vocabulary used in the scientific style, as well as the structure of business writing;
methods of hypotheses and evidence.

To be able to:
read scientific literature related to a particular industry;
work with sources of information;
process the information obtained in the texts of essays, abstracts, annotations;
analyze information from various sources on a particular issue under consideration; 2.5 clearly and competently formulate his ideas, convincingly justify it.

To own:
language and speech features inherent in his speciality;
all kinds of reading the literature of different genres;
scientific writing style;
the ability to summarize and analyze information;
skills of analysis of scientific work.

Training techniques
Written assignment
Analysis of other people's and your own texts
Writing texts and discussing what was written

Genres of scientific texts
Primary: article, monograph, Chapter of monograph, review, textbook, report or message, oral presentation, presentation, lecture, dissertation
Secondary: abstract, extended abstract of dissertation, thesis, résumé, Teaching materials: manuals, work programs, guidelines Educational and scientific genres: lectures, reports or presentations, term papers, essays, structural abstract