#EMF5. Vera I. Zabotkina. "Essential skills for academic success". Day 1

Vera I. Zabotkina reported on the difference in Russian and English academic writing traditions.

The speaker represented TRIPLE I approach to Modern Education=>

Research:

• Interdisciplinary,

• International,

• Intersectoral,

• Intergenerational.

Traditional model of generation and transfer of knowledge consists of

• Monodisciplinary,

• Honogenerous,

• Hierarchical.

Vera I. Zabotkina paid a great attention to strong and weak points of higher education.

Then she covered Structure of  Paragraphs in different languages: English, Semitic Languages, Oriental Languages, Russian, Romance languages.

Vera considered that 'English is a completely writer-responsible language.

Russian, Chinese and Japanese are reader-responsible languages.' 

"What makes the paragraph?" asked Vera and explained => "These are lengh (12-15 lines), coherence, topic sentences".