Developing scientific abstract writing skills at the english lessons at a non-linguistic uiversity

DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2025_4_

Tatyana Yu. Portnova

Abstract. The paper deals with the issues of teaching non-linguistic specialty students to write abstracts for scientific papers as a component of academic writing skills. The paper presents the results of a survey conducted among first- and third-year students showing their self-assessment of academic writing skills. The author proposes and validates a thesis that an abstract is one of the most effective means for forming academic writing skills. The paper contains recommendations for organizing work on writing an abstract, examples of training materials and methodological techniques used by the author at the English lessons at Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation, Irkutsk Branch (MSTU CA IB).

Key words: academic writing, writing skills, teaching problems, scientific paper, abstract.

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