"This report documents the PASS interviewer survey which was conducted in November 2010. Altogether 253 interviewers who worked as interviewers for PASS wave 4 or 5 participated in a web survey focusing on their personality, attitudes and motivations and on strategies they use on their job. The...

"The aim of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) is to provide a database which allows analysing the dynamics of welfare benefits receipt after the introduction of the Unemployment Benefits II in Germany in 2005. This entails the take up and ending of benefits receipt as...

The paper aims to define the specifics of academic writing with focus on English language. It presents the linguistic features of academic text in comparison to the non-academic writing. Secondly, it provides the extended list of typical expressions used in different parts of academic paper. The...

Yana Akhapkina, Ph.D., senior researcher at the Linguistic Laboratory for Corpora Research Technologies, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: yana.akhapkina@gmail.com This is an analysis of long-term and contextual reasons for academic...

The paper aims to define the specifics of academic writing with focus on English language. It presents the linguistic features of academic text in comparison to the non-academic writing. Secondly, it provides the extended list of typical expressions used in different parts of academic paper. The...

In order to explore scientific writing in Information Systems (IS) journals, we adopt a combination of historical and rhetorical approaches. We first investigate the history of universities, business schools, learned societies and scientific articles. This perspective allows us to capture the...

Journal articles are sometimes later reprinted as chapters of edited books. The question whether citations of this material should mention the book or the journal has significant implications. I describe several advantages of citing the journal: it allows the readers to locate the material more...

In order to explore scientific writing in Information Systems (IS) journals, we adopt a combination of historical and rhetorical approaches. We first investigate the history of universities, business schools, learned societies and scientific articles. This perspective allows us to capture the...

The authors analyze the concept of academic skills in western pedagogy and its equivalents in Russian education. A hierarchical model of academic skills is proposed, which contains three types of skills: academic reading skills, academic writing skills and academic skills of oral presentations....

Von einem Matthäus-Effekt wird gesprochen, wenn ein Teil des gegenwärtigen Erfolgs auf vergangene Erfolge zurückzuführen ist. Auf die Wissenschaft übertragen, bedeutet dies, dass berühmte Forscher auch deshalb zitiert werden, weil sie berühmt sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag illustriert, wie...