Postgraduate textbook. Учебное пособие

Научный статус участника конференции в известной мере определяет выбор той или иной формы обращения к нему в процессе общения.

Task 1. Read the questions, translate them, and try to give full answers.

Task 2. Choose at least five questions to make up and act the dialogues: you are a Professor and a Postgraduate.

1.What is your occupation? What are you engaged in? What do you specialize in? Are you a research worker? Are you a post – graduate student?

2.Do you do science (do academic work / research / carry out research)?

3.Are you going to start your scientific career?

4.Why do you take up science?

5.When did you start planning your research project?

6.Were you absolutely free in choosing your research topic or was it your supervisor’s piece of advice?

7.How did you choose an appropriate research topic?

8.What parts does your research proposal contain? / What is the structure of your research work?

9.What are the aims and objectives of your research work?

10.What are the latest findings in your research area?

11.What are your original contributions to your specific field of knowledge?

12.Which do you think is better to write your dissertation after the research work has been completed or to write it in small sections? Why?

13.Do you do your best to finish a draft of your thesis as early as possible to send it to your supervisor for revision?

14.Do you think your research goals are achievable and realistic or may be a bit too ambitious?

15.Have you carried out a comprehensive literature review? What do you need it for?

16.How many items have you had roughly in your provisional bibliography of scholarly writings?

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17.What relevant literature is your research project supported by? Can you name some authors and works?

18.Who is your supervisor?

19.Do you think that choosing the experienced supervisor is probably the most important step for any postgraduate student?

20.Are you familiar with the works of your supervisor? Is it helpful?

21.Is it better for your Ph.D. supervisor to be young and inexperienced or old and experienced?

22.Have you developed a detailed and comprehensive methodology to answer your research questions?

23.Have you already tried to pilot your methodology to see whether it works?

24.What do you think is the most appropriate method of data analysis?

25.Does your research project involve plenty of work in labs?

26.Do you go out to the field to collect the data you need?

27.Do you pay for your Ph.D. study or does the university offer full funding?

28.Is your research work supported financially?

29.Do you believe your Ph.D. degree would help you to increase your future salary and to rise your social status?

30.You surely know that English is the lingua franca in academia, so do you feel you know it rather well to communicate freely with your scholar-colleagues?

31.Do you try to improve your skills in English by reading academic articles and searching for various writing resources on the internet?

32.What do you think of plagiarism? Can this happen occasionally?

33.What do you usually do to avoid committing plagiarism?

34.Have you had national and international research publications? Where and how many?

NB! Write down the answers in written, use the most important of them to tell about your research work.

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4. ТЕРМИНОЛОГИЯ, ИСПОЛЬЗУЕМАЯ ПРИ ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ НАУЧНОГО ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

STRUCTIRE OF THE RESEARCH WORK

1.Topic / Theme – Тема исследования.

2.Relevance of the Topic (Motivation for the Study) – Актуаль-

ность темы исследования.

3.Object of Research – Объект исследования.

4.Subject of Research – Предмет исследования.

5.Aims of Research – Цели исследования.

6.Research Questions – Задачи исследования.

7.Hypotheses of Research – Гипотезы исследования.

8.Methods of Investigation – Методы исследования.

9.Original Contribution – Новизна.

10.Significance – Значимость.

11.Implementations – Внедрения.

12.Conclusions – Выводы.

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5. ОБРАЗЦЫ ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ НАУЧНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ

LINGUAL – CULTURAL BARRIERS

OF E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS

Read the text, pay attention to the words and expressions which are given in bold. Use them to write down your own presentation on the base of the texts given in application 2.

Our investigation is both theoretical and practical and is devoted to the study of a particular kind of communication, namely e-mail communication of representatives of different lingual-cultures in English who are not native speakers.

The necessity of searching efficient strategies of achieving communicative success through e-mail communication, overcoming lingual-cultural barriers, inadequate study of factors leading to communicative failures preventing successful intercultural communication determine the motivation for the study.

For achieving the maximum efficiency of communicative interaction it is necessary to find out the most optimal linguistic forms of realization of communicative intentions of interlocutors and formulate common rules of e-mail communication for representatives of different lingua-cultures. This statement determines the aim of our exploration to bring to light and describe the reasons of communicative failures of e-mail communication of non-native speakers of different lingua-cultures.

The aim of our study determines the research questions of our investigation:

a)to analyze the body of English computer texts received from representatives of different lingua-cultures whose native language is not English;

b)to find out and describe peculiarities of the process of e-mail communication of representatives of different lingua-cultures and its result – e-mail communication;

c)to determine and systematize the reasons of communicative failures of representatives of different lingua-cultures through e-mail communication;

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d) to work out the strategy and determine the means leading to the minimum of communicative failures typical for representatives of different lingua-cultures through e-mail communication.

The object of our study is e-mail communication as the contemporary efficient means of communication of representatives of different lingua-cultures.

The subject of our investigation is the body of texts of e-mail

is not a native language.

We have come up with a hypothesis which can explain why a successful e-mail communication of representatives of different lingua-cultures is determined by the choice of linguistic means and their speech shape, keeping strictly to the common communicative strategies by all participants of the process of communication.

The original contribution of our exploration lies in the fact that a new empirical material – the body of anglo-lingual e-mail messages that are the result of e-mail communications of representatives of two cultural communities for whom the language of communication is not native was analyzed.

Then there were found out the most typical reasons of unsuccessful e-mail communication and were worked out the strategies of increasing efficient e-mail intercultural communication.

The e-mail communication as one of a new and modern efficient means of communication is explored in details.

In our exploration we used different methods: theoretical analysis of integrative type, control of the process of correspondence of representatives of different lingua-cultures, descriptive and comparative methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of data, comparative analysis on the basis of discourse analysis of e-mail texts S. Hering adapted to the conditions of our exploration, the method of modeling of the process of successful e-mail communication.

The methodological base of our investigation is the basic statements of the general linguistics (B. Phon Gumboldt, L. Vitgenshtein etc.), the theory of speech activity and communication (A.N. Leontiev, A.A. Leontiev etc.), the scholars of e-mail dis-

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course and intercultural communication (E.A. Galichkina, D.B. Gudkov etc.).

The theoretical significance of our study consists in the further development of the statements of the theory of discourse, namely e-mail discourse, bringing to light typical characteristics of lingual and cognitive consciousness of communicators of different lingua-

of communication – e-mail communication.

The practical significance of our exploration lies in the fact that the basic difficulties through e-mail communication of communicators of different lingua-cultures were brought up to light and then systematized. Besides there were worked out the strategies of successful communication and the ways of correction of possible communicative failures. The results of the study can be used in linguadidactics in teaching intercultural communication, business correspondence, in forming the policy of communication in international organizations, in arranging business negotiations. The purposeful and timely using intercultural and innovative technologies will promote the efficient interaction of personnel in international companies.

Implementations. General statements and obtained results were reported at different conferences. Practical recommendations on overcoming communicative barriers in the conditions of intercultural communication were included into the instruction on the work with foreign representatives of Air Bridge Cargo Company.

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6. ПРАКТИЧЕСКИЕ ЗАДАНИЯ ПО ПОДГОТОВКЕ ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ

Classic presentation structure:

Introduction (I’d like to talk today about…) Outline (I’ve divided my talk into…) Questions (If you have any questions, please…) Part 1 (Let’s start with… / So that covers…) Part 2 (That brings me to…)

Part 3 / 4 etc. (… and turn to…) Summery (To sum up…) Conclusion (In conclusion…)

Use this structure to make classic presentation. Some useful expressions from the privies paragraph will help you to fulfill the task.

CREATING AN EFFECTIVE POSTER PRESENTATION

Discuss in groups of three

1.What is the purpose of a poster presentation?

2.When can it be used effectively?

3.What is the layout commonly used for posters?

4.Can you give any guidelines in designing and creating the poster?

5.What is the amount of words for the poster presentation?

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the phrases given below

Supplements, engage colleagues, researchers network, foster collaborations, share findings, support the data, a communication tool, visual displays of data, noteworthy, to disseminate research findings research findings.

Poster presentations are an excellent way for researchers to (1) ____

_____________ and display their work. The researcher is typically available to give a short presentation and answer any questions, while the poster serves as a visual aid and (2) _________

________________. Preparation of an effective poster is critical

(3) ___________________ the researcher's presentation. The poster could be thought of as an illustrated version of the abstract with

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(4) ____________________ and small blocks of text that explain the project and (5) ______________. An effective poster can (6) ___

____________, start conversations, help (7) ________________ and help (8) _____________________. During a poster presentation session, the audience will be looking for a clear snapshot of the project so a good poster is focused on single message, uses graphics and images to tell the story, and is well-organized and sequenced. An ineffective poster often has a main point that is hard to find, text that is too small, poor graphics, poor organization and other problems. The research and the results will only appear to be as interesting and

(9) ______________ as the quality of the poster.

Therefore, while posters can be an important way (10) _____

_______________ they must be prepared correctly.

Finish the sentences:

1.The purpose of a poster presentation is _______ .

2.The poster serves as ______________________ .

3.An effective poster can ____________________ .

4.An ineffective poster has ___________________ .

Characterize what poster is in detail.

1. Focus on

–the definition;

–its purpose;

–the types of information involved.

2. Search for online poster presentations and analyze the structure and layout.

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БИБЛИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ СПИСОК

1.Багаутдинова, Г. А. Английский язык для аспирантов и со- искателей : учеб. пособие / Г. А. Багаутдинова, И. И. Луки-

на. – Казань : КФУ, 2012. – 134 с.

2.Волченкова, К. Н. English for Researches: International Conferences : учеб. пособие для повышения академической мобильности магистров, аспирантов, научно-педагогичес- ких работников / К. Н. Волченкова. – Челябинск : ЮУрГУ, 2017. – 81 с.

3.Минакова, Т. В. Английский язык для аспирантов и соиска- телей : учеб. пособие / Т. В. Минакова. – Оренбург : ОГУ, 2005 – 103 с.

4.Плешивцева, Е. Ю. Иностранный язык [Электронный ре- сурс] / Е. Ю. Плешивцева. – Новосибирск : НГАСУ (Сибст-

рин), 2017.

5.Шевцова, Г. В. Professional English for civil engineering specialities. Профессиональный английский для строительных специальностей : учеб. пособие / Г. В. Шевцова, Л. Е. Мос- калец. – Новочеркасск : ЮРГПУ, 2016. – 111 с.

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ПРИЛОЖЕНИЯ

Приложение 1

Образец оформления титульного листа

Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации

Новосибирский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (Сибстрин)

РЕФЕРАТ

для сдачи кандидатского экзамена

по иностранному языку (указать какой)

Тема: «_____________________________________________» (тема реферата на русском языке)

Выполнил(а): соискатель (аспирант)

кафедры _______________________________________________

Ф.И.О. (полностью) ______________________________________

Тема диссертации: «_____________________________________»

Научный руководитель __________________________________

Новосибирск, 20 __ г.

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