800909 VU Academic Writing für Ph.D. Students
winter semester 2022/2023 | Last update: 12.10.2022 | Place course on memo listStructuring and outlining research projects/questions; improving on and building-up self-reliant research-skills.
Refining academic writing skills, methods, and style competence. Reading techniques, receiving text feedback, arguing and defending a thesis, building research-focus. Streamlining thought-processes, project planning and writing strategies. Coping with writer’s block; focusing on specific topics, doing collaborative work.
Freewriting, visualizing textual aims, feedback, collaborative learning, introspection, text analysis.
In-class attendance. Final assessment is based on regularly written and oral assignments completed by participants.
Bolker, J. (1998) Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day; Elbow, P. (1998). Writing with Power; Wolfsberger, J. (2016). Frei geschrieben. Mut, Freiheit und Strategie für wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten.
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