Are you planning to write a research paper or dissertation and are asking yourself how to best go about it? Or, have you started writing, but are unsure of how to most effectively bring across your ideas and findings? Or, have you finished a draft and are wondering how to best polish it for publication?

If these or similar situations sound familiar to you, this online workshop is for you. You will learn how to best express yourself, what criteria a well-written academic paper in English needs to fulfill, and how you can manage the writing and publication process most productively.

In this part, we will focus on how to properly present an argument in a paragraph, how to formulate effective sentences, and how to revise a draft manuscript for publication. This second part also offers the possibility to discuss a small part of your text (which is entirely optional, though).

Workshop Content:

• present and discuss your findings;
• create powerful abstracts;
• draft well-focused paragraphs;
• apply the stylistic conventions of academic writing to your texts;
• write clear and concise sentences in English;
• connect sentences and link ideas to make your text flow well;
• understand how Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT function and what that means for using them;
• devise useful prompts for the use of LLMs;
• evaluate text produced by an LLM;
• overcome potential obstacles or anxieties throughout your writing process.

Course Organisation:

After completing the course, participants are also given the option of an individual online feedback session of about an hour with the course instructor.

Registration Deadline: 3 June 2026
Instructor: Frank Lauterbach
Date & Time: 
17.06.2026 | 09 AM - 12:30 PM
18.06.2026 | 09 AM - 12:30 PM
19.06.2026 | 09 AM - 12:30 PM
20.06.2026 | 09 AM - 12:30 PM
Course language: English
►Register for Part 2: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/e/ACADEMIC-WRITING-P2