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Academic Writing University Center — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:35:29 +0000

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IMPACT AND RESEARCH COMMUNICATION SKILLS WORKSHOP: WHY DID YOU WRITE THIS ARTICLE?

Elena Bazanova — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:14:51 +0000

June 10-11, 2019, NUST MISiS, MOSCOW
The goals of this intensive workshop are to improve participants’ science communication capabilities and help them translate their science to reach broader audiences, including those with questions or concerns about the methods, findings or implications of scientific research.

Auditorium: Б-636

The workshop will feature a format of interactive, hands-on activities. Participants will use their own data and research to create products designed to help communicate with their intended audiences. Expected outputs include key messaging statements and a draft of a newsletter describing the participants’ research. Participants should bring a laptop with them.

Boris Naimushin is an Associate Professor of Translation and Interpreting in the Department of Foreign languages and Cultures at the New Bulgarian University. He has a Master of Advanced Studies in Interpreter Training from the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a PhD in Bulgarian Linguistics and Translation from the St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Boris teaches on BA and MA courses on simultaneous and consecutive interpreting, translation studies, English phraseology, and Cultural Studies.

Boris is a Visiting Professor of Translation and Interpreting at a number of Russian Universities. He is also Expert and Jury Member of Cosines Pi, an international contest of conference interpreters held in Moscow (2017 and 2018).

Boris is an active conference interpreter with Russian and Bulgarian (Languages A), English (Language B) and French (Language C).

Since 2009, he has been an interpreter for the Presidency of Bulgaria working with three Presidents and two Vice Presidents.

He is a member of the Association of Translations and Interpreters in Bulgaria and the Union of Translators in Russia.

BORIS NAIMUSHIN

Topics will include:

Introduction to the scholarship on the science of science communication
Knowledge and skills in data interpretation and science communication
Methods to contextualize specific research topics
Developing your research communication strategy
Putting together your message map
Communication with scholarly journals
How to respond to peer reviewers comments (the CHOPP rules)

Target audience: This workshop is intended for anyone working in a science or research field and at any career level. Students, early career, mid-career, or advanced professionals are all welcome.

Duration: 6 hours (Two Days)Time: 17 00 – 20 30

“National Writing Centres Consortium“ Official Website

Victoria Vasina — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:29:30 +0000

November 1, 2018
Welcome to the website of the Association of Academic Writing Experts “National Writing Centres Consortium“

NWCC Official Website

Academic Writing in a Global World Conference-2018: Current Challenges & Future Perspective

Victoria Vasina — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 08:00:00 +0000

The Association of Academic Writing Experts “National Writing Centres Consortium“ (NWCC) is inviting academic writing experts, directors of writing centres, writing tutors, and a wide range of passionate ESAP/ EAP teachers to participate in a conference that will take place on October 19-20, 2018.

The NWCC Conference is a good framework for academic writing specialists to work collaboratively, discuss what they observe in class or their writing centres, exchange opinions and work out solutions, present to their like-minded colleagues the efforts that they found as most effective.

http://conference.nwcc-consortium.ru/

This framework is bound to promote a more systematic approach to writing centre pedagogy and practice, ESAP and EAP teaching and learning, tutor training, knowledge transfer and exchange among writing centres and consider various strategies to writing that can be employed.

The topics of interest are academic writing and the development of writing centres.

The Conference participants are invited to discuss the following QUESTIONS:

How can writing centres promote academic literacy?
What best practices can be communicated to colleagues?
How can your clients’ needs be translated into research?
What resources/events can foster a sustainable development of writing centres?
How can a writing centre engage other stakeholders in the internationalization of education in Russia?
How can writing centres as change agents transform institutional attitudes to writing in the curricula?
How can the Consortium empower writing centre tutors and teachers of writing?

Academic Writing in a Global World Conference-2018: Current Challenges & Future Perspective

Victoria Vasina — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:25:08 +0000

Web: http://conference.nwcc-consortium.ru/

The topics of interest are academic writing and the development of writing centres.

The Conference participants are invited to discuss the following QUESTIONS:

How can writing centres promote academic literacy?
What best practices can be communicated to colleagues?
How can your clients’ needs be translated into research?
What resources/events can foster a sustainable development of writing centres?
How can a writing centre engage other stakeholders in the internationalization of education in Russia?
How can writing centres as change agents transform institutional attitudes to writing in the curricula?
How can the Consortium empower writing centre tutors and teachers of writing?