This manual is intended for foreign students at an intermediate-advanced level who have a vocabulary of at least 10,000 words, and who are able to write texts in different styles and genres. The manual's goal is to develop foreign students' speech abilities through close study of stylistic and structural peculiarities of the educational essay in two versions: descriptive and persuasive essays....

The manual gives a thorough introduction to the basic writing and speaking styles. For advanced students of Russian (C1).

The reader includes short anekdotes, jokes, and funny stories. For the I level.