SCIENCE WRITING IN ENGLISH: DIFFICULTIES FOR NOVICE RUSSIAN AUTHORS

Statement of the problem. The paper discusses multiple deviations science texts in English language written by Russian novice writers from norms and expectations international discourse community. purpose article is to propose a concept utilizing computer linguistics tools automated text analysis for pedagogical purposes identify real needs students writing English. methodology based on contrastive discourse-analysis two corpora: students’ research manuscripts published papers expert writers. Both corpora belong one engineering discipline were compiled specifically purposes. corpus was conducted means tool Gramulator. Research results. quantitative qualitative differential bigrams Gramulator demonstrated that authors significantly differs writing. considered indicated lower lexical diversity; insufficient skills using grammar absent language; tendency underuse predicative clauses hedging devices; overuse words phrases typical scientific style, as well referencing specifying phrases. Conclusions. proposed aimed make academic process more student-centered. identification common linguistic problems researchers’ may raise awareness differences rhetorical choice languages, improve strategic making proper when their own texts, and, thus, approach target