Workshop: Academic Writing

In this workshop, participants will become familiar with various aspects of clarity which are essential for producing logical, reader-friendly prose. As well as examining the various stages in the writing process, we will focus on the structure of abstracts and, using examples of “best practice” articles, closely look at how a professional research paper should be written. In doing so, participants will enrich their academic lexical repertoire and be able to identify common errors which frequently arise in academic texts. An abstract of approx. 200 words can be sent to the course coordinator one week before the start of the seminar. It will be corrected and returned during the seminar. Writing coaching can be provided after the workshop if required.

Topics:

• planning and organising a research paper
• writing effective introductions
• developing ideas and coherent arguments
• paragraph structure
• punctuation
• academic vocabulary and register
• summarising and paraphrasing (the abstract)

Die aufgeführten Inhalten entsprechen einem 2-Tages-Workshop, online in englisch (gern auch mit Erklärungen in deutscher Sprache