The  REVIEW  of  the qualification paper by Catherine A. Zavarzina, a bachelor graduate  from the Department of Intercultural Communication,     «Features of oral and written basic language forms as they turn up in Web blogs»  Catherine  Zavarzina’s qualification paper deals with  the  current  process of  self-building communicative system by the Web speech community. The scope of  Catherine’s research  project embraces blogs,  specific Web generic varieties.   The current academic study of  Web communication is inspired  by  an opportunity to compare theoretical  assumptions and  linguistic methodology  of  traditional  (live)  communication research built up by several generations of Russian - based  linguists between 1930s - 2000s. Catherine  Zavarzina’s  task is  to observe the ways in which the distinctive features of  two basic language forms, speaking and writing,  coexist or combine, or perhaps, fuse within a new hybrid language variety   appropriated  by the most mobile and  communicatively flexible walk of  society, the young people.   The first chapter, observing 60 academic research sources, offers both classical and contemporary linguists’ views on the linguistic composition of oral VS written language varieties as they are intersected by oral VS written style complexes in traditional, real life communication. The second portion of linguistic observation and theorizing refers to the communication in the Web. It was worth making a special section on blogs, even if limited.  The second chapter deals with analyzing the distinctive features of oral and written  nature  as they are realized, and possibly modified within the internet frame. 6 internet addresses are adduced as sources for picking blogs, including Live Journal and other similar projects. A major drawback, though, is the fact that particular texts and conversations selected for analysis, are supplied with neither e-addresses or any other information about the blog/gers. Considering the relevance the details of a blogger’s personality or social position can have for its language, this is very unfortunate. The poor quality, indeed, the scarcity of linguistic analysis performed on the majority of blog texts is also disappointing. The elements of the discourse frame of analysis were brought about in a more satisfactory way.  The conclusion for chapter on practical  linguistic and discourse analysis, stating that “blogs reflect a high degree of oral and written speech pattern mutual penetration, with the effect of  major language change in the  Web communication” does not seem to be sufficiently supported by the linguistic analysis of the blogs, unfortunately.  Yet, notwithstanding the criticism of the text and the methodological failures, I acknowledge a great effort put by Catherine Zavarzina into her research project, and believe that she is entitled to the positive mark. .                                                        PhD, Professor with the Dep. of General Linguistics                                                                                                   Victoria B. Gulida