Teaching various academic writing genres in a modern university

The article explores the practice of teaching academic writing in English using a genre-based approach. Most often, such courses focus on essay writing; however, in practice, students encounter the need to compose academic texts of various genres, such as research proposals, scholarly articles, reports, or case studies. This highlights the necessity of developing skills for working with diverse academic texts. The author analyzes the difficulties students face when writing research proposals and article abstracts and suggests possible ways to overcome them. To identify these challenges and their underlying causes, methods such as qualitative text analysis, interviews with students who completed the «Research Writing» course, and analysis of video recordings of group text discussions were used. It is demonstrated that a step-by-step approach to writing texts of specific academic genres, developing evaluation criteria in collaboration with subject-matter experts from specialized departments, and fostering students' independent work helps address these challenges and cultivates the necessary academic skills.