COMPONENTS, ASSESSMENT CRITERIA AND INDICATORS OF ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS OF STUDENTS DOING THEIR MASTER’S DEGREES IN SCIENCES

Abstract

The article provides the detailed description of assessment criteria and norms of gaining the foreign language competence in stylistic requirements for academic writing of students doing their Master's Degrees in Sciences. There have been defined four levels of gaining academic writing skills in accordance with implementation of tasks, namely writing feasible survey and experimental scientific articles according to linguistic and stylistic as well as structural requirements and with the prospect of their entry into the real English international scientific community.