(1649) 《WRITING FOR PUBLICATION》 LANGUAGE ENHANCEMENT COURSE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF DEVELOPING SCIENTIFIC WRITING SKILLS OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STAFF

摘要

In the present world of global competitiveness and international collaboration, it has become essentialfor university academic staff and employees engaged in research to share results of their scientificwork with the international community of science and education. One of the ways to enhance thisglobal communication is through publication in the world-leading scientific journals. Thus, in RussianNational Research Universities, in accordance with their Strategic programme of development, havingsuch publications has become part of criteria for measuring performance of research and teachingstaff. However, for a vast majority of university employees, scientific writing appears a highlychallenging task due to the necessity to write in a foreign language, particularly English as thelanguage of international importance. In the given situation, successful scientific writing requires notonly language proficiency but also proficiency in writing skills. The aim of this article is to shareNational Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) best practice in helping its employees gain thenecessary skills by launching a professional language enhancement course 《Writing for Publication》.Special pedagogical conditions of the realisation of this course are described. Among them are thefollowing: the language of instruction, the course structure and content, the course delivery, thelearning material. It is believed that such an approach can significantly facilitate TPU faculty raise theirinternational recognition, enhance scientific writing activity, and, consequently, meet the newchallenges and requirements of a global workplace. In addition, it is suggested that TPU experiencecan be successfully adopted by other universities in order to help their academic staff gain high-levelprofessionally-oriented language competence for scientific purposes.