Scientific-methodical project on higher education pedagogy in the context of academic writing

article is devoted to the scientific and methodical project as a type of independent work of postgraduate and graduate students on the discipline «Pedagogy of Higher Education» in the aspect of academic discourse. The scientific-methodical project is considered as a process and a result of complex scientific-methodical activities of students, related a) to justification of pedagogical in-novation and design of its implementation in educational practice, b) to registration of results in the texts of scientific style - text of project, abstract, theses, oral presentation (report). The following stages of pedagogical support of undergraduate and graduate students' individual scientific and methodical projects in higher education pedagogy have been suggested and characterized: preparatory, diagnostic and motivational, teaching, student's independent activity, reflexive and evaluative, corrective, post-action stage. Technological means for pedagogical support of the process of scientific and methodical project implementation by students are presented: teaching materials on methodology and methodology of pedagogical research, on step-by-step project implementation, on annotation and thesis implementation as texts of scientific style, on preparation of oral presentation for project defense. The article shows the results of systematic experimental work on the practical implementation of students' project activity.