Online-Workshop: Scientific and Academic Writing in English

Even for those who have attained a high level of written English, there are many small points of grammar and style that can confuse and hamper the non-native writer. We will focus on these and other language questions in a systematic manner, while building on your store of academic vocabulary and expressions. There are regular writing tasks to practice the skills learnt, with feedback following each exercise.

We will examine:

• Appropriate levels of formality
• Tips for writing productivity
• Achieving a good ‘flow’ of ideas and expression
• Accuracy in definition
• Describing problems, solutions and outcomes
• Presenting data and data commentary
• Understanding the most common mistakes
• Avoiding Plagiarism: Note-taking techniques

All of these writing skills will be examined in the context of a variety of types of writing: general-specific texts, problem-process-solution texts and data commentary texts. In this course, the option exists for the participants to spend the second half-day of the course in a writing workshop – examining and editing a short piece of their own writing (500-600 words – for example, an abstract or an extract from the introduction, a key passage or conclusion). This will require the participants to be sent a pre-course briefing during the week preceding the course.

In the following video, your trainer Mark Edwards introduces you to the workshop in more detail:
"Scientific and Academic Writing"

November 6, 7 & 8, 2023: 9–12 am

Fees

*This fee also applies to postdocs from the other universities in the Postdoc Network Brandenburg (PNB) – BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

Further information on the workshop program and our partner institutions.

The calculation of the workshop fees for this workshop is analogous to that for a 2-day in-person workshop.