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hnology in April and May, 2012. The total number of stu- English but also in Spanish, German and French. Therefore,
dents taking the test was 34. Most of them were students we encourage all students to take the test, especially those
studying Information Technology who passed the test at lev- who desire to assess their language skills and those who
els B2 and higher. This means that there are more and more would like to demonstrate their language ability to potential
students whose level of speaking English is fluent and we are employers.
very glad about this fact.
Edyta Olejarczuk
We are planning to conduct BULATS tests in the academic BULATS test coordinator
year 2012/2013. All BULATS tests are available not only in edytaolejarczuk@put.poznan.pl
W o r k s h o p 7-11 M ay, 2 012:
Professional Writing
in English
Diane Boehm, Director of the University Writing Program at I think it might be helpful in
Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, USA, gave a work- general for any of us, who have
shop titled “Professional Writing in English” for our university to give extended series of lectures
staff. She agreed to give an interview after the workshop. and/or workshops.
Here is the interview with Diane Boehm: DB: For the writing in the sciences ses-
sions, I began by reading three recently-
Lilianna Anioła-Jędrzejek (LAJ): experience and feedback after the published books on technical and scien-
This isn’t the first workshop on previous workshops? tific writing, to be sure my information
improving writing skills that was current. This, along with some sug-
you’ve given at Poznan University DB: Previous workshops have always gestions based on your seminars, helped
of Technology, is it? had a very diverse group in terms of lan- me decide what to include in the work-
guage expertise, courses taught, and shop. Then I sought out some excellent
Diane Boehm (DB): I’ve done similar age and background, so my goal was to models of scientific communication, so
faculty and staff workshops twice previ- provide a framework that would offer we could use these as examples (I think
ously. As PUT has expanded its English- valuable perspectives to all the partici- of these as “mentor texts”). I used online
language courses and more faculty and pants. The workshops had two sessions TED talks and journal articles from Don-
staff wish to write and publish in English, each day: the first presented perspec- ald Sadoway at MIT; video and an article
I’m happy to be a resource for them. I’ve tives on writing in the sciences and from Sandra Postel, a world expert on
also given feedback on multiple grant- technical fields, the second focused on water issues; and examples from some
funded projects, so I’ve learned a lot English grammar and usage. of my SVSU colleagues like engineering
about Polish users of English. professor Alan Freed, physics professor
LAJ: What were your steps of Matthew Vanette, and chemistry pro-
LAJ: What was your focus this preparation for the workshop? fessor Ken Kearns. This gave us a wide
time? Was it based on your Can you share your procedure? range of styles and documents: profes-
sional papers, business correspondence,
abstracts, proposals, and multimedia
presentations.
For the second sessions, focused on
grammar and usage, I worked from the
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dents taking the test was 34. Most of them were students we encourage all students to take the test, especially those
studying Information Technology who passed the test at lev- who desire to assess their language skills and those who
els B2 and higher. This means that there are more and more would like to demonstrate their language ability to potential
students whose level of speaking English is fluent and we are employers.
very glad about this fact.
Edyta Olejarczuk
We are planning to conduct BULATS tests in the academic BULATS test coordinator
year 2012/2013. All BULATS tests are available not only in edytaolejarczuk@put.poznan.pl
W o r k s h o p 7-11 M ay, 2 012:
Professional Writing
in English
Diane Boehm, Director of the University Writing Program at I think it might be helpful in
Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, USA, gave a work- general for any of us, who have
shop titled “Professional Writing in English” for our university to give extended series of lectures
staff. She agreed to give an interview after the workshop. and/or workshops.
Here is the interview with Diane Boehm: DB: For the writing in the sciences ses-
sions, I began by reading three recently-
Lilianna Anioła-Jędrzejek (LAJ): experience and feedback after the published books on technical and scien-
This isn’t the first workshop on previous workshops? tific writing, to be sure my information
improving writing skills that was current. This, along with some sug-
you’ve given at Poznan University DB: Previous workshops have always gestions based on your seminars, helped
of Technology, is it? had a very diverse group in terms of lan- me decide what to include in the work-
guage expertise, courses taught, and shop. Then I sought out some excellent
Diane Boehm (DB): I’ve done similar age and background, so my goal was to models of scientific communication, so
faculty and staff workshops twice previ- provide a framework that would offer we could use these as examples (I think
ously. As PUT has expanded its English- valuable perspectives to all the partici- of these as “mentor texts”). I used online
language courses and more faculty and pants. The workshops had two sessions TED talks and journal articles from Don-
staff wish to write and publish in English, each day: the first presented perspec- ald Sadoway at MIT; video and an article
I’m happy to be a resource for them. I’ve tives on writing in the sciences and from Sandra Postel, a world expert on
also given feedback on multiple grant- technical fields, the second focused on water issues; and examples from some
funded projects, so I’ve learned a lot English grammar and usage. of my SVSU colleagues like engineering
about Polish users of English. professor Alan Freed, physics professor
LAJ: What were your steps of Matthew Vanette, and chemistry pro-
LAJ: What was your focus this preparation for the workshop? fessor Ken Kearns. This gave us a wide
time? Was it based on your Can you share your procedure? range of styles and documents: profes-
sional papers, business correspondence,
abstracts, proposals, and multimedia
presentations.
For the second sessions, focused on
grammar and usage, I worked from the
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