Readiness of master's and postgraduate students for scholar texts generation

the article considers the readiness of Master's and postgraduate students to write abstracts and theses as a form of academic writing. Readiness for scholar texts generation is defined as a component of a scientific-research competency and academic writing is considered as a learning tool. The author describes the methodology and results of an empirical study on Master's and postgraduate students' readiness to generate abstracts and thesis of an original text. The proposed criteria for the abstracts and theses quality assessment meet the requirements for the scientific prose style. The analysis data are given for abstracts and thesis written by students of various training programs. On the grounds of students' and instructors' questionnaires analysis the author makes some assumptions on the causes of the generated texts low quality and proposes recommendations on developing a system of academic writing education in the university.