Development of master students’ academic writing skills at a non-linguistic university
The article is devoted to the problem of academic writing skills formation of master students in the course of foreign language teaching. The article considers academic writing skills as the most significant component of students' research activities. The necessity of formation of foreign language writing competence as the most valuable component of academic communication and scientific activity is pointed out. It is noted that the development of foreign language writing competence should be based on reading and analysis of special scientific texts. The students are advised to follow and analyze academic texts using it as a basis of their own academic texts. It is shown that in the course of the independent planning of text writing work it is required to include the tasks for purposeful development of reading and writing skills. The in-class foreign language studies introduce the students to contemporary rules and norms of scientific writing communication which are to be taken into account in the foreign language academic text writing work. Special attention is paid to the peculiarities of scientific style of written foreign language academic texts and the importance of teaching the rules for writing abstracts using specific research-related words. The problem of lexical and grammatical peculiarities of academic writing is discussed.