PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will take place online!

In this workshop, we will develop a broad range of skills to communicate your research most effectively through writing in English. Should the ongoing restrictions continue, the workshop will be offered as an online seminar via BigBlueButton. As such, it would replace the face-to-face course, but would, nonetheless, cover the same content and use the same approach as the in-class workshop (see below).

This workshop, together with its second part in June, will address how academic writers can best express themselves, what criteria a well-written English paper needs to fulfil, and how the writing and publication process can be managed most productively. We will, on the one hand, discuss important strategies for developing powerful English sentences, paragraphs, and texts that meet the expectations of readers, reviewers, and editors alike. On the other hand, we are going to analyze your work in progress to practice how to efficiently organize your writing and how to successfully prepare your papers for publication.

The first part of the workshop focuses on techniques for drafting a professional and reader-friendly text while the second part will address issues of using academic language properly and effectively.

Topics of Part 1:

• understanding the nature of professional academic writing in English;
• getting started with writing your text and overcoming any potential obstacles;
• defining the focus and purpose of a research paper, proposal, dissertation, or any other academic text;
• developing adequate outlines for introductions;
• recognizing the overall structural organization of research writing;
• creating powerful abstracts and titles;
• organizing your findings logically and coherently into parts of a text;
• constructing well-focused paragraphs;
• completing a writing project successfully.

This first part of the workshop is designed as an introduction to academic writing and publishing and develops a deeper understanding of how to construct research papers and other academic texts and how to organize one's writing best. You will get an opportunity to apply this to your own writing in the second part of the workshop. Further information on the practical part of the workshop will be given in class.

Registration Deadline: 23 March 2022
Instructor: Frank Lauterbach
Date & Time: 
Online 06. - 09.04.2022 | 9 AM – 1 PM
Course language: English
Module: This workshop can be credited in the BRS Qualification Programme Module "Writing and Publishing"

Conditions of participation

This workshop is primarily aimed towards doctoral candidates of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Participation in this workshop is subject to a participation fee. For doctoral candidates of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, this is a fee of 30,00 €. Please note the applicable conditions of participation according to the Terms of Usage for Qualification Courses at the Bauhaus Research School. We will inform you about the payment modalities by e-mail after you have registered for the course here in the portal.

Depending on capacity, other members and affiliates of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and external interested parties can also participate in the qualification courses. Participation is also subject to a participation fee. If you are interested, please contact the Bauhaus Research School directly in advance by e-mail to research-school@uni-weimar.de.