By Heather Belgorodtseva, an EFL Teacher and Teacher Trainer, who ran a series of workshops at the Academic Writing Center. She can also be found writing about discourse analysis and online communication at Those Sharp Words. There is a lot of advice out there about the art of persuasion, starting…

By Tatiana Martseva, Ph.D. in Germanic languages, a guest lecturer at Higher School of Economics and the Academic Writing Center. Oxford dictionary defines argumentation as a series of logical arguments to support a theory, an action, or an idea. Despite such seemingly clear definitions people have been debating about the…

By Valeria Pozdnyakova, Ph.D., tutor at HSE School of Foreign Languages & Svetlana Suchkova, Ph.D., director of the Academic Writing Center at HSE University. Are you preparing a research article for publication? If you are, here is a yes-no checklist for you: I’ve chosen the journal. I’ve carefully studied the…

By Heather Belgorodtseva, an EFL Teacher and Teacher Trainer, who ran a series of workshops at the Academic Writing Center. She can also be found writing about discourse analysis and online communication at Those Sharp Words. If there’s one thing that everyone knows about academic writing, it’s that the passive…

By Evgeniya Lubennikova, English language instructor, The School of Foreign languages, HSE University. She copleted the School of Trainers at the Academic Writing Center. Evgeniya can be reached at e.fedorova@hse.ru. When I heard my students speak English for the first time, I immediately knew that I had to show them…

By Svetlana Bogolepova, Ph.D. in Linguistics, Associate Professor and Programme Academic Supervisor at HSE University. She completed the School of Trainers and ran a workshop at the Academic Writing Center. Have you ever got rejections for not using appropriate vocabulary and style in your article? Have you ever looked for…

By Konstantin Sheiko, Ph.D. from the University of Wollongong in History and International Relations, AWC consultant. The amount of global data increases threefold annually. Academic publications are an integral part of this “data accumulation snowball” effect: around two million articles get published every year. …

By Dmitry Abbakumov, Ph.D. from KU Leuven in Educational Sciences, Head of HSE Centre for Computational Educational Sciences. He ran a workshop at the Academic Writing Center. Five years ago, I stepped on my doctoral route, which led me to the title of Doctor of Educational Sciences from KU Leuven…

By Svetlana Suchkova, Ph.D., director of the Academic Writing Center at HSE University. I love playing with metaphors. Comparing two seemingly incomparable things helps to visualize the situation and create a memorable image. …