"Academic writing" as academic discipline in the world university space: a comparative analysis of didactical and methodological approaches

The article discusses the specifics of writing scientific texts and student papers, determined by the standards of English-speaking and Russian-speaking science and university practice. The author reflects on the measure of expedient reasonableness and the degree of relevance of the introduction of world standardization in the Russian-speaking educational field. Substantiations are given for the importance of introducing academic disciplines into the educational process of universities that integrate the provisions of the English-language content «academic writing» and the Russian-language course «academic writing» with a wider range of rules, including those that have been developed in the domestic model of science and higher education. The article presents a comparative analysis of didactic and methodological approaches to educational and scientific texts. The content analysis of textbooks and scientific articles that consider academic writing in the broad and narrow sense of the word is presented. Attention is paid to the specifics of the academic writing course in Finnish classical universities. The article presents the author's reflection on the incompatibility of some styles of scientific text that has developed in different cultures, which do not reduce their heuristic significance. Particular attention is paid to the application of the theory of paradox as a methodological basis for the interpretation of the discipline «academic writing» in the Russian and English traditions. To enhance the attractiveness and increase the visual component of the content proposed in the article, links to relevant video materials are provided, the express analysis of which is given in the article and may be useful for a general discussion on the topic of the issue.