This course is designed to cover all the areas needed to systematically develop language skills in academic and scientific areas (1), emphasizing the phenomena in academic and scientific fields (2). It covers the scope of the academic and scientific corpus (3), where students will learn how to evaluate ideas, explain concepts, and express opinions (4). The course also concentrates on the formal language generally used in written academic contexts (5).

Entry requirements for the course:
The entry requirement for the course is knowledge of English at the B1 level.

Requirements for course completion:
Active participation in the class, processing of assigned tasks for the period of winter semester, presentation of the current state of own research, describing prospectives in the scientific area using the language for scientific and academic purposes, research timeline, final test

1. Academic and scientific language
2. Word formation, Collocation, Patterns and structures, Prepositional phrases
3. Starting the process: Fixed expressions in scientific writing
4. Writing Personal Statements, descriptive paragraphs
5. Description: Structure, processes, time, and place
6. Description: quantity, statistics, trends, and change
7. Writing about data, description of a graph, chart, scheme
8. Writing a paragraph: Introducing, comparing and contrasting, concluding facts and opinions
9. Analysis and evaluation: Cause and effect, Similarities and differences
10. Analysis and evaluation: Graphs and diagrams, Information and evidence
11. Critical thinking, Research, Opinions, Problems and solutions, Theory and concept
12. Summary of the course, finding the voice of a researcher, available platforms for publication activities (presentations, evaluation, feedback)
13. Summary of the course, final test


Available study materials:
1. MCCARTHY, Michael a Felicity O'DELL. Academic vocabulary in use: 50 units of academic vocabulary reference and practice: self-study and classroom use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-68939-7.
2. MOORE, Julie. Oxford academic vocabulary practice: upper-intermediate, B2-C1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-400091-8.
3. MOORE, Julie a Richard STORTON. Oxford academic vocabulary practice: lower-intermediate, B1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-400088-8.
4. PATERSON, Ken a Roberta WEDGE. Oxford grammar for EAP: English grammar and practice for academic purposes with answers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-432999-6.
5. DE CHAZAL, Edward a Sam MCCARTER. Oxford EAP: a course in English for academic purposes: upper-intermediate/B2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2012. ISBN 978-0-19-400178-6.