By Dr. Melvin Hall, Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Wisconsin — Madison. He has taught academic writing, argument, and critical thinking for over fifteen years with an emphasis on the cultural role of rhetoric and comparative rhetoric. Series Title: Writing: An Art of Making Choices The…

By Heather Belgorodtseva, Director of Studies for Teacher Training at BKC-IH Moscow, spending much of her professional life giving colleagues constructive feedback. She also writes a blog about online communication, discourse analysis, and teaching. Criticising is an interesting word. It sounds so negative on the one hand — being negative…

By Viktoria Shabanova, manager at the Academic Writing Center. She graduated from Russian State University for the Humanities with a degree in Foreign (British) Philology. Every author of a research paper inevitably faces the problem of editing and proofreading their texts as the text readability and accuracy determine whether the…

By Tatiana Martseva, Ph.D. in Germanic languages, CPE, DELTA (Cambridge), FTBE (Pearson). Tatiana has over 20 years of experience in teaching English for specific purposes, academic writing, presentation skills, cross-cultural communication, and linguistics. Every text consists of words, and it seems easy to combine them into sentences in our mother…

By Dr. Melvin Hall, Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Wisconsin — Madison. He has taught academic writing, argument, and critical thinking for over fifteen years with an emphasis on the cultural role of rhetoric and comparative rhetoric. “For the student of composition . . . concentration…

By Marharyta Fabrykant, Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.), Leading Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Comparative Studies in Mass Consciousness, Expert Institute, HSE University. The very first thing we learn about academic writing is that great research alone does not make a great publication — or, for that matter, any kind…

By Irina Khoutyz, Doctor of Philology, a professor at Kuban State University. Irina specializes in academic communication studies. “The logic is not quite clear” seems to be a frequent reviewers’ comment on research papers written by non-native speakers. It arises from different expectations. Academics from different cultural backgrounds write differently…

By Viktoria Shabanova, manager at the Academic Writing Center. She graduated from Russian State University for the Humanities with a degree in Foreign (British) Philology. Lost in resources? No wonder. Do you know how many people are searching for useful tools and websites to help them in learning languages? According…

By Bernardo Eugenio Pincheira Sarmiento. He is from Chile. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Nottingham in the UK and after that moved to Moscow to work as Research Fellow at HSE University. He also ran a workshop at the Academic writing center. Are…