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Advanced Academic Writing Course

Instructor: Leticia Medina

This class will focus on developing essential academic reading, writing, and public speaking skills primarily for graduate and post-graduate students and faculty. Participants will develop reading, writing, and speaking skills needed to be successful in an academic and professional environment. A variety of materials will give the students the opportunity to analyze and comment on written examples, generate their own exercises, improve their own original work, and prepare academic presentations. The class is designed to meet the needs and demands placed on scholars and faculty to read, write, and present formal, academic material.

This course has become for me a new impetus to learning English. My educational program involves writing scientific articles. So, I received a huge amount of useful information about specialized scientific journals, rules of clearance and submission of paper, how to avoid plagiarism, rephrase and summarizing my thoughts correctly and many other helpful tips and tricks. Furthermore, this course is not only for improving writing skills, it is also about communication. We discussed different topics with our teacher and other classmates. I can say that my speaking skills get better too. English is a universal language in scientific community. People who want to connect their life with science have to understanding researchers from different parts of the world.

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Oral Communication for Researchers Course starts October, 24, 2019

Registration for Advanced English for Academic Purposes. Participants will develop and practice speaking skills needed to be successful in an academic and professional environment. A variety of materials will give the students the opportunity to participate actively in exercises, improve their listening skills and their own public speaking delivery, and prepare academic presentations.  Continue reading Oral Communication for Researchers Course starts October, 24, 2019

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UMBRELLA NATE CONFERENCE 2019 «NATE: NEW WAYS AND CHALLENGES» (26-28 SEPTEMBER, NIZHNIY NOVGOROD)

The NATE Umbrella Conference took place on 26-28 September 2019 in Nizhny Novgorod. The plenaries, lectures, and workshops were held at the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Education Development and the Higher School of Economics. Continue reading UMBRELLA NATE CONFERENCE 2019 «NATE: NEW WAYS AND CHALLENGES» (26-28 SEPTEMBER, NIZHNIY NOVGOROD)

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English Language Fellow Leticia Medina at NUST MISiS Academic Writing Center

September 23, 2019
We welcome our new senior lecturer at the NUST MISiS Writing Center: Leticia Medina from Texas, US.
This academic year 2019/2020, she will work with us and deliver courses on communication in the sciences as well as academic presentation skills. Leticia will also provide expert assistance to colleagues and NUST MISiS scientific researchers. Continue reading English Language Fellow Leticia Medina at NUST MISiS Academic Writing Center