Inhalte des Fachs

Learn the basics of academic writing and kickstart your writing with planning and drafting techniques! Fine. Think you’re done? Well, you got to know: Writing is rewriting. So revise your text, your first draft.

Ever heard of freewriting, looping, annotated outlines, mind mapping, top-down and bottom-up writing, reader-based and writer-based prose, the CARS-model? Or effective revision techniques for completing a text?

This workshop follows a hands-on-approach to getting you started with or revising your term paper. Although we will be covering models of the writing process and features of writing skill development, theoretical input is limited to necessary basics.

Most important is to see where you are with your term paper and how you can devellop it. Therefore, bring your text with you to work on it in the workshop.

By trying out different writing techniques, we will tackle questions like:

• Gardener or an architect: what type of writer are you?
• What are your theses and/or research questions? And how to formulate them?
• How do you structure a term paper and come up with an outline?
• Instead of feeling used by the literature, how do you stay in charge?
• Writing blocks and writing flow: how to avoid the former and invite the later?
• How do you revise your draft with less stress by preparing an action plan for revising and editing?
• What steps are there that help you handle the revising easily?
• How to test the structure, style, references, and language use?

As we go about this I will point you to online-resources for writers, which can assist you in revision and editing.