Information technology for academic writing in the English language

The article provides for the insight in the state of the art in research and development of e-tools for raising the quality of scientific and technical papers so that they could meet the international requirements for publications cited in Scopus, WoSc, etc. A functional classification of the main directions in the field is presented with the focus on the IT tools for non-native English speakers. Special attention is paid to the academic writing tools for Russian language users.