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| Article name |
Some Features of Teaching Writing Abstracts in English |
| Authors |
Yeryomina V.M. Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate professor,, yervic@yandex.ru |
| Bibliographic description |
Eremina V. M. Some Features of Teaching Writing Abstracts in English // Scholarly Notes of Transbaikal State University. 2016. Vol. 11, No. 6. PP. 86–92. DOI: 10.21209/2308-8796-2016-11-6-86-92. (Series Vocational Education, Theory and Methods of Teaching). |
| Section |
Theory and Methodology of Teaching Languages |
| UDK |
811.111 |
| DOI |
10.21209/2308-8796-2016-11-6-86-92 |
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| Annotation |
The most common form of academic writing is an abstract. The abstract is generally the first thing people read
before they start reading the whole article. The abstract written in English is often an only text helping Englishspeaking
people to understand a paper written in Russian. Writing abstracts is in fact very important for researchers,
graduate and postgraduate students who have to present the results of their research in a foreign language. This
paper aims to examine some features of teaching writing abstracts in English. The study sought to collect data and
learning experiences based upon intensive studying of literature in methods of teaching English for non-linguistic
majors. Our methodology included, firstly, focus on qualities of good abstracts. We presented authentic materials to
introduce some features of abstracts (both descriptive and informative). Secondly, some complexes of specific
exercises for teaching academic writing for graduate and postgraduate students are given. The method we applied
involved analysis of the parts of abstracts according to IMRAD format which is the most prominent norm for
structuring a scientific journal article. The results suggest that the most interesting activity in teaching writing abstracts
in English is editing authentic materials (abstracts of research papers) in groups. This and other activities help in
making drafts of students’ own abstracts to be presented at a future conference. This study lays the foundation for
further research into the formation, development and mastering the skills of academic writing which are very useful
for graduate and postgraduate students, university lecturers and researchers.
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| Key words |
academic writing, abstract in English, writing skills development, methods of teaching, complex of
exercises |
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