Academic Writing in English: Effective Strategies for Publishing Your Research (30.-31.01./13.-14.02.2025)
This on-site workshop provides the perfect support structure for PhD writing projects.
Are you planning to write a paper or dissertation and are asking yourself how to best go about it? Or, have you started writing, but are unsure 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 workshop is for you. You will learn how to best express yourself, what criteria a well-written English paper needs to fulfill, and how you can manage the writing and publication process most productively. Thus, the focus is on developing your own personal writing skills – instead of relying on (often unreliable) AI tools.
In particular, you will learn how to:
- communicate professionally in English as an academic writer;
- organize your writing process efficiently;
- get started with writing your text;
- define the focus and objective of your research paper or dissertation;
- develop adequate outlines for paper (and other) introductions;
- adequately reference and critically review previous research in your field;
- recognize the overall organization of research writing;
- outline the individual sections of your paper (or other academic texts);
- achieve coherence in your writing;
- 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;
- avoid some typical grammatical mistakes and pitfalls;
- enhance your use of academic vocabulary;
- use (and not use) AI tools (such as Chat GPT);
- overcome potential obstacles or anxieties throughout your writing process;
- master the submission, review, and publication process.
Instructor: Frank Lauterbach
Frank Lauterbach is head of Foreign Languages for Academic Purposes as well as coordinator of ENGLISH+, an Academic English program for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers at the Language Center of the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He studied English language and culture at the University of Göttingen and the University of California and worked as a researcher in various projects on transatlantic cultural relations. He also served as the founding manager of the English-language division at the Graduate Academy of the University of Oldenburg as well as the Scientific English program and the International Writing Center at the University of Göttingen. He has many years of experience in teaching English for Research Purposes – with a focus on academic writing and publishing, academic presenting, conference posters, international networking, and academic communication. GGG is successfully cooperating with him for more than ten years now.
Schedule:
30. – 31.01.2025 plus
13. – 14.02.2025
each day 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
(The workshop consists of four sessions which belong together.)
Venue: Convention Center by the Observatory, Geismar Landstraße 11, big seminar room
Credits: 2
For details visit: https://uni-goettingen.de/de/691096.html