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September 1, 2017 Ron Martinez invited by the Post-Graduate Office (PRPPG) to deliver a special course on Academic Writing in English, aimed at preparing graduate students from UFPR to publish in English. See more here.
March 20, 2017 Ron Martinez and Denise Abreu e Lima, president of the Brazilian national program Idiomas sem Fronteiras (Languages without Borders), have embarked on a new partnership that aims to bring the concept of UFPR's Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) to scholars all over Brazil. Read the full report (in Portuguese).
October 7, 2016 Ron Martinez is the founder and creator of Brazil's first real university writing center. The Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) will help students and professors from not only the Federal University of Paraná, but all over Brazil. People who need help with any kind of academic writing, including research articles in English to be submitted to international scholarly journals, will now have a free place to turn to. Find out more about the launch here.
July 18, 2016 The University of Oxford comes to the Universidade Federal do Paraná for the first time in the history of the university to run a special training course on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), coordinated by Ron Martinez. Read more about the course here.
August 12, 2016 New article by Ron Martinez and Karin Graf on English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) issues at the Federal University of Paraná. The study, entitled 'Thesis supervisors as literacy brokers in Brazil' is the first of its kind at UFPR in that involved interdisciplinary research collaboration between Ron Martinez of the Humanities (the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, DELEM), and Karin Graf of Materials Science (the Department of Mechanical Engineering, DEMEC). The article has been published this month in a special edition of the journal 'Publications' focusing on issues of non-native speakers of English (edited by Margaret Cargill) who need to publish their research internationally.
March 20, 2017 Ron Martinez and Denise Abreu e Lima, president of the Brazilian national program Idiomas sem Fronteiras (Languages without Borders), have embarked on a new partnership that aims to bring the concept of UFPR's Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) to scholars all over Brazil. Read the full report (in Portuguese).
October 7, 2016 Ron Martinez is the founder and creator of Brazil's first real university writing center. The Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) will help students and professors from not only the Federal University of Paraná, but all over Brazil. People who need help with any kind of academic writing, including research articles in English to be submitted to international scholarly journals, will now have a free place to turn to. Find out more about the launch here.
July 18, 2016 The University of Oxford comes to the Universidade Federal do Paraná for the first time in the history of the university to run a special training course on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), coordinated by Ron Martinez. Read more about the course here.
August 12, 2016 New article by Ron Martinez and Karin Graf on English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) issues at the Federal University of Paraná. The study, entitled 'Thesis supervisors as literacy brokers in Brazil' is the first of its kind at UFPR in that involved interdisciplinary research collaboration between Ron Martinez of the Humanities (the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, DELEM), and Karin Graf of Materials Science (the Department of Mechanical Engineering, DEMEC). The article has been published this month in a special edition of the journal 'Publications' focusing on issues of non-native speakers of English (edited by Margaret Cargill) who need to publish their research internationally.
