Academic Writing (Social Sciences and Humanities)

Graduate Studies Support Program

This workshop is part of the Graduate Studies Support Program of Berlin University Alliance. For an overview of all Graduate Studies Support Program events, click here.
 

Objectives
This workshop is a hybrid event: In the first part, the entire group meets to discuss issues relating to the production of academic texts, for example the writing process, structuring, style and special features of the English specialised text, but also to create an opportunity for exchange. In the second part, all participants will be offered individual coaching in which they can discuss their own text as well as unresolved questions and problems. The aim of the workshop is to master the craft of writing English-language texts with greater confidence.

Content - Group Meeting in person (31 October)

• Introduction, getting to know each other, organisational matters
• Steps of the writing process
• Developing structure (e.g. storyboards, clusters, argumentation model; specifics of English texts)
• Techniques of text production and revision
• Improving style (e.g. developing criteria, close reading technique, working with text patterns,
• reader orientation and meta-level, special features of English texts, digital resources)
• Conclusion

Content - Individual coaching session (7 November, 30-45 Minutes)

• Discussion of your own text excerpt
• Possibility to ask questions