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Д. А. Крячков
TERM PROJECT WORK
STAGE 3
Ex. 7. Peer editing. 
a) Edit the following excerpts from students’ research proposals. Focus: language 
accuracy and style.
b) Revise the excerpts using the phrases from ex. 3 and 4 where possible.
1. 
The aims of the project are to develop a more comprehensive knowledge base regarding the 
foreign policy of Germany in the asian-pacific region, particularly, in the economic dimen-
sion, to gain a better understanding of the ways and methods whereby the german govern-
ment intensifies its political and economical clout in the region, and to work out some specific 
policy recommendations for Russia in terms of enhancing trade with asian-pacific countries 
(at least 11 mistakes).
2. The ever growing mass cross-border migration has become an inherent element of the pres-
ent international landscape. This issue is one of the primary items on the international agenda, 
as it has not only far-reaching demographic, socio-economic and cultural consequences but 
also presents a considerable challenge of globalization to the world stability. Obviously, in a 
manner, this phenomenon affects practically all countries, both developing and developed 
ones, as its various implications go far beyond ever more transparent national boundaries. 
The cases of South European states, Italy and Spain in particular, are of a considerable and ever 
growing interest, as in early 1990s these traditional labour exporters started to acknowledge their 
role of the ‘new immigration countries’, facing immigration inflows from extremely diverse regions.
The research will describe and explain how both states have coped up with the rapid and 
apparently unexpected shift through the lenses of party politics, political elite’s discourses 
and practices from the end of 1980s until the first decade of 2000s. Moreover I suppose to 
take into consideration the differences of historical development of the two states and their 
socio-economic peculiarities in order to find out what factors of public policymaking have a 
major effect on migration policy (at least 13 mistakes). 
3. 
Nowadays Germany is one of the major champions of European integration and in the same time 
is the leading export country in the EU. However often situations occur when national interests of 
Germany are ad odds with the EU guidelines, particularly, when it comes to economic coopera-
tion with other states. For instance, Germany seeks to enhance trade relations with China, but at 
the same time it has to stick to European values based policy, and therefore sometimes tensions 
arise due to the issue of violation of human rights in China. Such contradictions exacerbate the 
environment of mutual cooperation between Germany and People’s Republic of China and drive 
a wedge between the aspirations of Berlin to contribute to EU development and to secure its own 
positions in the world. This will be one of the main points that the research will be focused on.
The second issue that will be envisaged is economic and political cooperation between 
German and key states of asian-pacific region. It will be interesting to investigate how the 
leading European exporter explores vast asian-pacific market (at least 16 mistakes).
Ex. 8. Write the Research Problem section of your research proposal using relevant 
phrases (length 1–1.5 pages).

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