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This channel is a collaborative environment where everyone can get tips for developing academic writing skills, enhancing their confidence as an author, and achieving their academic and professional goals.

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Welcome to the channel of the Academic Writing Lab (AWL) at ITMO!

Here we share our experience of writing instructors as well as multiple resources and tips on developing academic writing skills.

At AWL we work with:

academic genres including CVs
cover and motivation letters
presentation slides
grant and conference proposals
essays
scientific papers
synopses

All our consultations and workshops are collaborative, we do not do any work FOR you, we do it (TOGETHER) WITH you.

AWL’s instructor will:

📍join at any stage of your writing process
📍help systemize your ideas and translate them into words
📍revise, edit and proofread your text with you
📍advise you on fostering your own writing skills
📍support your author’s voice


Reach us out via awl@itmo.ru
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CHANNEL NAVIGATION 🔥

📍#Events - workshops, lectures, and consultations

📍#Tips - recommendations on academic writing style, grammar, formats, and skills

📍#Text_editing - examples of more effective wording

📍#Quiz - some fun
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Если вы в поисках новых форматов для демонстрации ваших открытий и доступного способа поделиться идеями с широкой аудиторией, приходите на мастер-класс «Нейросети и Научные комиксы», где мы разберем:

🔸 какими бывают научные комиксы
🔸 зачем научным сотрудникам научные комиксы
🔸 как подготовить комикс в нейросетях и без навыков рисования
🔸 как сделать сценарий для вашего первого комикса

Дата: 11.12.2024
Время: 19:00
Формат: онлайн

Спикер: Валерия Макарова, преподаватель курсов по маркетингу и Soft Skills в университете ИТМО, автор научного комикса об И.И. Ползунове, занявшего первое место в конкурсе научных комиксов об истории Алтайского края.

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Writes and Write-nots

Writing is inherently difficult. In his recent essay Paul Graham argues that in about 20 years not many people will possess strong writing skills delegating the job to AI in professional and educational settings. This will divide a world into writes and write-nots without the middle ground. Will it be a world of thinks and think-nots bearing in mind that writing requires clear thinking?

Essay
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With the festive period over, we can happily go back to our work!

We hope you feel your workplace and your colleagues are your second home and your family. May 2025 bring you interesting and promising projects that will keep you motivated and enthusiastic to go forward and meet the deadlines. And of-course we expect you to have your outstanding research findings published! We are always there to help you with editing and proofreading your texts.

You can always apply for a free consultation via awl@itmo.ru
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Some words and phrases have become red flags for research writers as they pop up as AI-generated content.

Why did it happen?
The answer lies in the way AI models are trained. They are mostly fed on the texts from books, articles, and websites that feature the same formal vocabulary and patterns. Consistency is the AI strength and weakness. Interestingly, some research writers share this feature sticking to what they know to work, and  repetitively use certain words and phrases.

What to do?
Avoid predictability by diversifying your language. Overused repeated patterns result in an AI detector's educated guess that a text might not be entirely human and in the text becoming almost meaningless.
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Hyphen (-) joins two or more words to show that they have a combined meaning.

Examples: three-digit, low-to-middle-income, real-world, self-correction, school-like environment, charge-discharge efficiency
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Голос автора: тише воды, ниже травы

Дмитрий Щербинин, кандидат физико-математических наук, старший научный сотрудник лаборатории нелинейной оптики конденсированных сред МНОЦ Физики Наноструктур, и Юлия Рябухина, доцент, кандидат филологических наук, обсудят, как изменилось отношение к голосу автора в современном научном тексте

В последнее десятилетие в повествование в научном письме перестает быть обезличенным, и присутствие автора в тексте все более заметно - автор активен. Вспомните, еще совсем недавно все гайдлайны говорили, что надо избегать личных местоимений, что надо использовать фразы в духе "было показано, что…”, "В работе исследуется...", "Впервые демонстрируется.... ". Сейчас же в рекомендациях для авторов мы видим, что следует избегать чрезмерного использования страдательного залога, громоздких сложных предложений, и обезличенных конструкций. Начался период когда автор получил право на голос. Но это только первые шаги. А может ли автор привносить в научный текст цитаты из популярной культуры, строить аллегорические образы для лучшего понимания работы, напрямую писать, что нечто произошло волею случая, а что-то так до сих пор и осталось за гранью его понимания, или даже шутить в тексте научной статьи? Не приводит ли это к размыванию научного результата?

Разберем и обсудим эти вопросы на реальном примере статьи Butterflies and bifurcations in surface radio-frequency traps: The diversity of routes to chaos
опубликованной в журнале AIP CHAOS, с одним из ее соавторов

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Dash (—)/(–) separates or connects words or groups of words to introduce a clarification or a range.

Further effects must contribute to the dominant nature of this mutation only one of the two copies of the gene needs to be mutated to cause the disease.

Dipole disorder has been reported to enhance the piezoelectric effect the conversion of strain to electrical charge in a nonlinear dielectric.

Where will you use the dash and where will you use the hyphen?

Lithium … ion batteries, for example, can store a lot of energy, but their energy-delivery speeds … their power densities … are limited by the slow kinetics of the electrochemical processes that control discharge in these devices.

Lithium-ion batteries, for example, can store a lot of energy, but their energy-delivery speeds — their power densities — are limited by the slow kinetics of the electrochemical processes that control discharge in these devices.
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