Text types of academic writing "Referat/homework" and "abstract/book description" in German and Ukrainian higher education

Abstract

The article deals with some aspects of academic writing in Ukraine, which is already taught as a special subject in more than a quarter of Ukrainian universities. Differences in the23interpretation of the academic genre "the report" as an oral report at a seminar in the German academic tradition and as a type of written speech of greater volume in the Ukrainian educational tradition (term paper) were considered. It is noted that the term “report” is borrowed from Latin in both languages, but the genre “report” in academic speech shows different characteristics in volume and in the quality “oral / written form”, which in German tradition is a voiced form of writing based paper with the use of nonverbal resources of speaking and modern presentation techniques (visual: pictures, photos, fragments of the movie and audio tools), which demonstrates a hybrid form of the academic genre “report”. The genre of academic writing “abstract” is represented by a number of varieties in both Ukrainian and German traditions of academic speech, but in German it has several designations for these varieties, and in Ukrainian we use one term “annotation (summary)”, which combines all varieties in one generic concept as a philosophical term. An annotation to a scientific conference, an annotation to a scientific article, bachelor's andmaster's thesis, dissertation, monograph, textbook, encyclopedia, reference book, fiction book for sale on the Internet or for sale in a bookstore are considered. However, for all types of genres of academic writing and for types, considered in the proposed article, the characteristic features of scientific style are significant: transparency and brevity of structure (introduction, main part, final part), the high degree of informative speech together with the concise form, the use of the standards of literary language, use of terms and of professional vocabulary, impersonality, logical form of speech, сonsistency of the content expression.