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? …

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…

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…