This is the first course of the English for Research Publication Purposes Specialization. The course is an introduction to what you need to know about academic discourse. You’ll gain important critical reading skills to help you develop as a self-critical scientific writer. You will learn practical tools and effective strategies for increasing your academic vocabulary and grammar so that you will write well-structured coherent academic texts.
Introductory Video
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AH
Oct 20, 2016
interesting, informative and useful. I quite like the self-questioning part which makes publication reading more effortless. Thanks.
PK
May 15, 2019
Very useful course ! Through this course, I can find ways to improve my workflow to finish my academic paper. Thank you once again!
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MODULE II : DEVELOPING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
This module covers issues related to building academic vocabulary. The module clarifies word-formation processes, i.e., affixation, conversion, and compounding. The focus is on strategic language re-use and ways of dealing with new words. The module provides software tools for extracting frequently occurring vocabulary specific to an area of research.
Ministrado por
Elena Bazanova
Director of the Language Training and Testing Center