Academic Writing Skills (6 weeks)
Target Group
All PhD students.
Format and dates:
6 week writing course, 90 min. per week
09:00 - 10:30 am on Thursdays
28.10.,04.11.,11.11., 18.11., 25.11., 02.12.2021
Content:
This six-week online course provides you with the opportunity to discover, discuss and apply essential academic writing skills in a targeted manner. In turn, many of these skills and techniques can be applied to your ongoing writing projects in other settings. The course addresses the following writing skills: Structure, cohesion, and flow; paraphrasing and citing references; describing a study via explicit ‘moves’; commenting on data, hedging and boosting claims; discussing results and implications; peer feedback.
The sessions will help you:
- Identify ‘violations‘ of academic writing ‘standards‘ and revise accordingly
- Recognize, apply and enhance flow and cohesion in your writing
- Identify and apply approaches to establishing your voice/position (citing literature, reporting verbs, hedging, evaluative language)
- Identify and apply structures in academic writing
- Give peers constructive feedback on their writing (structure, critical perspective, style, accuracy)
Teaching methods:
- Six-week online course (Zoom – sound and visual)
- Wb-ILIAS course room
- Presentation
- Peer-to-peer exchange and constructive feedback
- Facilitated discussions
- Written tasks with instructor feedback
Instructor: Matthew Kirchner, SLI
Participants: Maximum 12
Registration deadline: 21 October, 2ß21
Registration: Please register only if you can attend all sessions.
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