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• Digital Science: IT Solutions for Academic Writing

  ITMO.NEWS has already published some advice on writing articles in English in such a way that they’d be accepted by an international journal. In this article, we’ll focus on two useful tools: the first can be of help to those who aren’t confident in their English skills and the second can help make an article more accessible to the academic community and increase the number of its citations.

  10.06.2020

• How to Write an Article That Will Be Accepted by International Journals

  English became an international language long ago and it is used for publications in leading journals. Being published in them is not only a matter of prestige, but a proof that the researcher is part of the worldwide academic community. It’s not easy to be published in Nature, Science, or Cell, but for a start you can improve your academic English. Inna Anokhina, a senior lecturer at the Foreign Language Training Center and the head of the Academic Writing Lab, and Roman Zakoldaev, a PhD and a junior research associate at the Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information with a lot of experience in publishing papers in international journals indexed by Scopus, discuss how to do it in this ITMO.NEWS article.

  04.06.2020

• Academic Writing at ITMO University

  How to write a scientific article in English? What’s the difference between texts published in Russia and those published in major international journals? And what are the basics of academic writing that every scientist needs to know? Inna Anokhina, head of ITMO’s Academic Writing Lab, believes that most young researchers make a similar mistake when preparing their articles for publication in international journals: all they do is simply translate their articles from Russian into English. The laboratory offers free courses and workshops, as well as individual consultations that can help you prepare your articles for publishing in international journals. Learn more about the laboratory and the opportunities it offers in an article by ITMO.NEWS.

  02.08.2018

• Taking a Glance at Academic Writing in Arizona

  Four of our staff spent the last two weeks of June enjoying the Arizona sun and learning how English and Academic Writing are taught at the University of Arizona. Here’s what they learned.

  12.07.2018

• Arizona University Expert: Why People Don’t Want to Learn Foreign Languages

  People all over the world are still reluctant to learn new languages – even English, which is commonly seen as the new global language. We spoke about this topic with Robert Cote, Director of the Writing Skills Improvement Program at the University of Arizona, who came to ITMO University for the ESP Conference. Robert explained why no one can ever fully learn a language, why it’s important to start soon and why language learning can never work without tutors and group work.

  17.04.2018