This paper summarizes experience from the course on teaching publishing skills in English in Humanities and Social sciences at the Language Centre of the Faculty of Arts Charles University. It focuses on syllabus design, materials design and didactic techniques, all of which take into consideration entrance level of language proficiency, motivation, prediction of needs of future academics, including insights from genre analysis of scientific texts and stylistic norms of the academic community.
These course underpinnings are addressed by didactical solutions and their assessment in terms of learning effectivity.