Effectiveness of Academic Writing teaching in Master’s program

Abstract

This article provides the system of work directed to forming of skills and development of abilities of the academic writing of non-linguistic specialties master students of higher educational institutions. These skills are demanded in the documents of the international organizations and the state educational standards of higher education of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the basis of the analysis of requirements to competences of teaching engineer master’s program. The article considers: 1) the system of exercises focused on consecutive development of abilities of master students’ writing since elementary level of mastering a foreign language; 2) abilities of writing sentences and paragraphs in English; 3) the correct essay writing which covers a) writing of introduction with inclusion of the hook, connecting information and thesis statement; b) conclusion writing with use of the sentence, opinion, or prediction. This system was approved in professional English classes of master students at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University and showed the outstanding efficiency.