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                                                Are ebooks so popular and good nowadays?                                                             With the development of digital technology, many physical elements, such as pen and paper, are gradually being replaced by computers and smartphones. But is it really good? Since the creation of "electronic readers" more and more people are turning to the technological side of reading.    One major advantage of e-books is portability. With the recent development of e-book readers, you can take an endless amount of books with you on vacation or on the go. Another great advantage of e-books is that they are chea...

A Reflection Note                           The semester is coming to the end, and I would like to say some words about our course. In general, I liked it. Here are some reasons why.              Our regular work with newspaper sources allows me to be aware of the latest world events and problems of our time. Writing summaries of articles helps me to drive the information through myself, to analyze and draw conclusions. I also enjoy reading the works of my peers. Through this I can see how it would be better to build the structure of my essays and also I pay attention to mistakes to avoid them in the future.              The task I liked most was working with materials of the IATEFL conference. I’ve learned what teachers around the world were doing to make their teaching more engaging and effective. So I...

Should the service always be friendly? We are living in the era of consumption. There are a lot of shops and cafes everywhere. And if you go to any of them, most likely you will be greeted with a wide smile. But are you sure that this smile is sincere? Because of the crazy competition employers are trying to attract customers in all possible ways. One of them is «the guest is always right» policy. Workers are required to be friendly and inconvenient. Now you can ask «is it so difficult just to be amiable?». And I can say that yes. Just imagine that you have to smile and talk to people for 12 hours every day. In my opinion it is clearly emotional service and it must be forbidden. I am sure that sincere smile is much more pleasant than work smile. And I want to know that if people are smiling at me because they are happy. Of course I do not say that all service should be gloomy and rude. I want to say that people need to show their real emotions and on the work too. Now the situ...

This semester , and the year as a whole, passed very quickly. Academic writing taught me a lot. Now I know how to write well-organized essays and summaries of articles.  I really like the idea of writing post. Now my works are available at any time and I can always re-read them. I'm also always interested in the thoughts of others, and it's great that we have the opportunity to read the works of groupmates. We found some websites devoted to some aspect of Writing in English such as http://www.citationmachine.net/ or https://bitly.com/ . Before, I haven't read The Guardian. Now I know that there are a lot of interesting articles. This class got me thinking of many issues, helped me express myself and get acquainted with thoughts of groupmates.

 I would like to start by saying that the academic writing course perfectly complements the program of studying English. Thanks to the course I began to study more about the world and important things by reading interesting articles. It was a big surprise for me that some information I can find only in foreign resources. Moreover, I had a good opportunity to practice my grammar, lexis, reading and of course writing! From this course I learned how to use citation machine and how to write a summary without plagiarism, what I have found useful due to entry of coursework into our program. Sometimes I feel confused because some topics were too wide for me or I have no idea what should I write or how. It will be great if in future we will have more concrete themes or have a discussion before writing. Anyway, I liked the most the idea to share our works with groupmates and learn something new from our topics and thoughts. Also  leaving question in your blog or comme...

Hello everyone! Recently I have read an article  about environmental pollution . Well, in short, the article is about how to change your life for nature safety. It introduces to you what is pollution? global warming and etc. What I love the most is that the author gave the reason why we should stop doing some things and show some alternatives. Now I am sure that I am ready to help nature. I think it is vital to correct our mistakes and the mistakes of past generations. Not only for the future people, children, but also for us! Of course I knew some information from other articles and some commercial, for example abot the global warming: how it appeared and why is it dangerous. Anyway, as I said, such short commercial does not give the information how to avoid it. I am only in the beggining and such articles are complex for me, but I think it is very important to understand this topic. Sometimes they use scientific terms and incomprehensible designations, and I have to search...