a conference. Read it and do the exercises.

You know, any scientific conference is an important event in the researcher’s

life, especially in graduate student’s activity. It provides an opportunity for exchanging opinions with more experienced colleagues and gives impetus to valuable discussions.

 I’ve taken part in several conferences, both as an organizer and as a participant.

But now I’d like to dwell upon my first experience in attending an international

conference of young researchers held under the auspices of the MSPU. The

initiative to convene the conference belonged to the University Academic

Council. Thus, an organizing committee was formed which sent the so-called

“Preliminary Announcement” to all the establishments concerned with the view

of supplying potential participants with general information about the conference.

From the announcement I learnt such important things as the main programme

of the conference, orders of plenary sessions, rules for scientific contributions,

requirements to submitted abstracts, information about registration

fees, hotel reservations, etc. It was very important for me as a post-graduate

student that the abstract would be published in Conference Proceedings.

I immediately filled in the preliminary application form and mailed it without

delay. After that I was to submit a short abstract of my paper (one printed

page) before the deadline.

 Finally, my abstract was accepted and I started preparing my report. I will never forget the first conference day. The conference started at 9 a.m. with the registration of attendees. Before the plenary session I had some time to get acquainted with other participants, to look through the latest information,

to buy some booklets about the conference work. I was particularly interested in the workshop on State and Municipal Government, since it is my specific field. There were more than twenty scientific contributions to our workshop, all of them

being on topical problems of State and Municipal Government. According to

the workshop schedule I was the last to speak. All the reports were followed

by discussions, mine wasn’t an exception. I was asked several questions and

did my best to answer all of them. I spoke without even looking into my notes

and tried to make my reasoning very clear.

I also attended a poster session and found it of particular interest because I

managed to study numerous texts of the papers supplied with diagrams, drawings,

schemes and photographs.

The final session with review papers was truly rewarding for it summarized

all that had been going on not only at the conference but also in the field of

State and Municipal Government for the past twelve months.

 In conclusion, I’d like to say that I liked a specific atmosphere of the conference

characteristic of any scientific meeting: groups of delegates discussing something, the sight of prominent scholars surrounded by their followers, talks, smiles, greetings, exchange of opinions.

 

Task 2: Find in the text English equivalents for the following Russian ones:

получить приглашение

участвовать в конференции

поделиться опытом

под эгидой

быть устроителем конференции

заинтересованные учреждения

информационное письмо

пленарное заседание

секционная работа

рабочий язык конференции

организационный взнос

тезисы доклада

сделать сообщение

обсуждение за «круглым столом»

стендовые доклады

культурная программа

подводить итоги работы конференции

заключительная речь

 

 

Task 3: Fill in a registration form to the following conference:

31 August - 2 September 2018
The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) will be holding its eleventh residential training event for post-doctoral researchers in Manchester. This year the School will be run…

Starts:	31 aug 2018
Ends:	2 sept 2018
What is it:	Conferences
Organiser:	Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research
How much:	Free to successful applicants

Claire Spencer

0161 275 1980

[email protected]

registration form:

Conference Registration Form

First Name:

Last name:

Institution:

Email:

Address:

City:

State:

Zip code:

Country:

Tel.:

Fax:

Preferred day and time for presentation: (Please circle):

Wed. Dec 8. am pm Thur. Dec. 9. am pm Fri. Dec 10 am pm

Task 4: My future thesis (master dissertation)

Wright down the main ideas on the theme of your future thesis (master dissertation), share your own experience; explain your motivation for taking post-graduate course.