English in Use for Masters

Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное   
учреждение высшего образования 
РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА 
и ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ СЛУЖБЫ 
при ПРЕЗИДЕНТЕ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ 
Западный филиал 
 
 
 
 
 
 
О. Б. Бессерт 
 
 
ENGLISH IN USE  
FOR MASTERS 
 
 
Учебно-методическое пособие  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Калининград 
2019 

УДК 802.0(07) 
ББК 81.2Англ 
Б53 
 
Рецензенты: 
 
Доцент кафедры менеджмента Высшей школы экономики,  
управления и права Северного Арктического) федерального университета 
кандидат экономических наук, доцент В. В. Крицкая; 
доцент кафедры ГМУ 
кандидат педагогических наук, доцент И. Ю. Андрюхина. 
 
 
 
Б53 
Бессерт, О. Б. 
English in Use for Masters: учебно-методическое пособие / 
О. Б. Бессерт. – Калининград: Аксиос, 2019. –  76 с. ISBN 978-5-91726158-4 
 
 
 
Содержит аутентичные аудио, видео и печатные материалы для обсуждения на занятиях и самостоятельной работы по дисциплине «Деловой 
иностранный язык».  Пособие предназначено для магистрантов, обучающихся по направлениям подготовки 38.04.02 Менеджмент и 38.04.04  
Государственное и муниципальное управление.  
 
 
 
Рекомендовано к изданию Учебно-методическим советом Западного 
филиала РАНХиГС в качестве учебно-методического пособия для магистрантов, обучающихся по направлениям подготовки 38.04.02 Менеджмент и 38.04.04 Государственное и муниципальное управление 27 февраля 
2019 г., протокол № 06. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Западный филиал РАНХиГС, 2019 
© Бессерт О. Б., 2019 
ISBN 978-5-91726-158-4 

CONTENTS 
 
 
 
 
Unit 1.  
1.1 Planning your Career 
4 
 
1.2 What is Science? 
5 
 
1.3 Higher Education for Science 
7 
Unit 2.  
2.1 Writing up a Resume or CV 
14 
 
2.2 Get the Right CV Template for You 
18 
 
2.3 Professional Development Video 
22 
 
2.4 Covering Letter 
35 
Unit 3. 
3.1 Getting Started in Research 
38 
 
3.2 Research Problem 
39 
 
3.3 Historical Background of Research Problem 
41 
 
3.4 Current Research. Purpose and Methods 
43 
 
3.5 Current Research. Results and Conclusion 
45 
Unit 4.  
4.1 Research Papers. 
Gathering Data and Writing Summary Notes 
47 
 
4.2 Organizing Ideas 
48 
 
4.3 Writing the Paper: Structure, Linguistics and Style 
49 
 
4.4 An Abstract 
56 
Unit 5.  
5.1 Presenting Research at a Conference 
58 
 
5.2 How to Chair a Conference 
60 
 
5.3 Presenting a Paper 
61 
Appendices 
1. Abbreviations Used in Science 
67 
 
2. Latin Words and Abbreviations 
68 
 
3. Mathematical Symbols 
69 
 
4. Numerical Expressions 
69 
 
5. Reading Mathematical Symbols 
70 
 
6. Language Functions 
71 
Literature 
 
75 
 
 
 

UNIT 1                                                Planning your Career 
 
 
1. Starting Up 
 
1. Give a three-minute presentation on yourselves: your name, your 
work or studies, experience, ambitions and areas of expertise and 
interest within science and research (both in the public and private 
industries if you are professionals). 
 
2. In pairs, discuss the following questions (as appropriate). 
What do you do? 
1. What are you studying? 
2. What do you like/dislike 
about studies? 
3. How long have you been a 
student? 
4. Why did you choose to study 
that subject? 
5. What 
are 
your 
ambitions/hopes for the future?  
6. Do you use English in your 
studies? 
7. What frightens you most 
about studying? 
8. What excites you most about 
studying? 
 
1. Who do you work for? 
2. What do you like/dislike 
about your job? 
3. How long have you been in 
that job? 
4. Why did you choose that profession? 
5. What are your professional 
plans/ambitions? 
6. Do you use English in your 
work? 
7. What is the thing which most 
frightens you in your job? 
8. What is the thing in your job 
which most excites you? 
 
9. How long have you been studying English for? 
10. Why did you choose a career in science? 
11. What field of science are you currently working or studying in? 
12. What would you like to do next in your work or studies? 
 
3. Join another pair and tell them what you have found out. 
 
4. Work in pairs. Here are some practical things you will learn to do 
on this course. Classify them in boxes below. Most can do in more 
than one box. 

applications 
giving information 
notes 
articles 
interviews 
presentations 
complains 
letters 
proposals 
emails 
meetings 
reports 
enquiries 
memos 
telephoning 
error correction 
negotiations 
visits 
 
WRITING 
READING 
SPEAKING 
GRAMMAR 
LISTENING 
 
5. Imagine you are going to give advice to someone who is new to 
learning English. Prepare a list of pieces of advice which you think 
will be most useful. 
 
1.2 What is Science? 
 
1.What do the following words mean? Match them with their definitions 
science 
a science 
scientific 
scientist 
 
– the study of the nature and behaviour of natural things and the 
knowledge obtained about them 
– a particular area of scientific knowledge and study, or the study 
of an area of a human behaviour 
– describes things that relate to science 
– someone who works in science 
 
2. What is the difference between ‘science’ and ‘a science’? 
 
3. Which branches of science study each of these areas? 
 
environment 
human mind and behaviour 
living things 
society and social behaviour 
language 
money, industry and trade 
celestial objects 
numbers, quantities and shapes 
weather 
people, society and culture 
political systems 
water, rocks and soil 
matter and forces 
substances and their reactions  

4. Put the branches of science into the following 4 main groups: 
I. Mathematics and logic 
- not based on experimental testing but they can be considered a part of 
science because they are essential tools in almost all scientific study 
II. Physical science 
- examines the nature of the universe 
III. Life science 
- also called biological sciences or biology, the study of living organisms 
IV. Social sciences 
- deal with the individuals, groups and institutions that make up human 
society 
 
5. What is the main difference between sciences and humanities? 
 
6. How do we call the scientists who specialize in the following fields 
of study? How are the names formed? Are there any other words 
that can be formed from these words? Give examples. 
 
ecology 
psychology 
anthropology 
chemistry 
linguistics 
meteorology 
biology 
sociology 
political science 
physics  
astronomy 
mathematics 
economy 
philosophy 
chemical engineering 
history 
theology 
biochemistry 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1.3 Higher Education for Science 
 
1. Many scientists continue their education in other countries. The 
table below summarises higher education for science in the US. 
Make a similar table for your country and then answer the following questions. 
1. Is science education in the US similar to science education in your 
country? 
2. If you decided to study in the US, which qualification would be best 
for you? 
 
Higher education for science in the US 
 
Qualification 
(lowest to highest) 
 
Category 
Duration 
(full-time) 
Place of study 
Associate of Science 
degree (AS) 
 
undergraduate 
2 years 
community college or 
junior college 
Bachelor of Science 
degree (BS) 
 
undergraduate 
2 or 4 years* 
college or university 
Master of Science 
degree (MS) 
 
graduate 
(postgraduate) 
2 years 
university or graduate 
school 
Doctoral degree 
(PhD) 
graduate 
(postgraduate) 
 
3 to 8 years 
university or graduate 
school 
 
* Students who have already completed an Associate (AS) degree  
can become a Bachelor of Science if they study for two more years. 
 
Note 
‘Post-doctorate’ relates to advanced academic work and research, 
or the ‘habilitation’, which is the highest academic qualification a person can achieve in certain European and Asian countries. 
The habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis 
based on scholarly accomplishments and/or publications, reviewed by 
and defended before an academic committee in a process similar to that 
of the doctoral dissertation. In the sciences, between 10 and 30 (or 

more) research articles have to be published during a period of about 4 
to 10 years. While the PhD is sufficient for a faculty position at a university in the United States, in other countries only the habilitation qualifies the candidate to independently supervise doctoral students and/or 
receive an academic promotion. 
 
2. Complete the definition of research with appropriate words or 
phrases from the box. Use a good dictionary to help you. 
 
study 
methods 
understanding 
universe 
research 
time 
 
Research can be defined as the thorough _____ of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) _____. Applied _____ is discovering, interpreting, and the development of _____ 
and systems on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the 
_____. ‘Publish or perish’ is the scientist’s maxim. Career advancement 
hinges on publications. But data generation requires _____ and money. 
 
3. Go on reading about research, complete the text with the best 
words. 
Research comprises creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture 
and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new 
_____. It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of 
previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or 
develop new theories.  
A research _____ may also be an expansion on past work in the field. 
Research projects can be used to develop further knowledge on a topic, 
or in the example of a school research project, they can be used to further a student's research prowess to _____ them for future jobs or reports.  
To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole. 
The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) 
are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and _____ 
(R&D) of methods and systems for the advancement of human 
knowledge. Approaches to research _____ on epistemologies, which