Guided Writing: English

Guided Writing offers you the opportunity to receive advice and corrections on a text while you are writing it.

You can bring any text you would like help with to a one- or two-hour consultation session. You will join two to three other participants and work on your text during the session while receiving intensive hands-on advice from a writing consultant. The consultant will answer your questions and address any aspects of your text that you want help with, including:

  • grammar, spelling, and punctuation
  • apt expressions (vocabulary and collocations)
  • lucid style
  • logical linking of sentences
  • overall structure of paragraphs and sections
  • format conventions
  • citation styles

This offering is intended for anyone who is writing something in English, regardless of whether English is their first or second language. All members of the University (students, staff, faculty) are welcome to participate, and you can bring along any genre of text, including:

  • seminar papers and presentations
  • theses and dissertations
  • curricula vitae and applications
  • formal letters
  • minutes and regulations
  • research presentations and slides
  • research papers and books
  • research proposals and calls for papers.

The writing consultant is qualified to offer competent advice on a wide range of genres from fields and disciplines spanning the university.


Times
You can register for as few or as many sessions as you desire.

Spring semester 2019

  • Friday, 18 January 2019 - 16:15–17:15
  • Friday, 15 February 2019 - 09:15–10:15
  • Friday, 22 March 2019 - 12:30–13:30
  • Friday, 26 April 2019 - 12:30–13:30
  • Friday 17 May 2019 - 12:30–13:30
  • Friday, 7 June 2019 - 12:30–13:30

A session will take place with a minimum of three and a maximum of four participants.


Costs
CHF 20.-/h (for students)
CHF 25.-/h (for employees of the University of Basel)


Requirements
English course at the Language Center (level B1 completed) or writing sample.


Registration
Please register here


Registration deadline
A week prior to each "Guided Writing: English" session.

Course information

Course level
Intermediate and higher
4 Lessons
Lecturer
Anthony Mahler, PhD
Course fee
Students and PhD candidates: CHF 20.00
Members of staff: CHF 25.00
Alumni: CHF 25.00
Please use the link to register
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