Writing at university can be perplexing and demanding. This is compounded by rapidly evolving digital and AI technologies that promise to solve your problems while adding new challenges. This academic writing course offers a structured and supportive environment to work on your own texts and enhance your authorial agency by prioritizing mind over machine.
The course demystifies writing by breaking it down into its different aspects and distributing them across manageable phases. It creates a workflow that supports you to grow your text, from conception through revision to submission. It guides you in developing a clear and convincing style of your own, from choosing appropriate words to leading readers through the overall narrative or argument. And it allows you to decide to which degree you want to integrate various technologies into your writing in a competent and responsible manner.
The course is particularly suited to bachelor and master students across faculties who want to develop transferable general academic writing competences. It is open to students who are planning to write a paper in the near future or who have already started their research and are presently working on a text to submit to a lecturer, supervisor, or publisher.
The course follows the iterative write-review-revise cycle to nurture productive writing strategies and improve the quality of the output. It combines the following components to help you turn concepts or data into a first draft or alternatively, to turn your draft into a submittable manuscript.
Instruction by the lecturer
During input sessions, the lecturer familiarizes you with the structural and language-related requirements for each section of your text. You are introduced to various resources such as style guides, templates and digital tools and supported in adapting them to your discipline and text type.
Structured and regular text production
Throughout the course you are motivated to grow your text by regularly writing sections according to goals and milestones you set for yourself.
Feedback from peers and the lecturer
Feedback from peers and the lecturer develops your ability to formulate and receive constructive written and oral comments that improve the quality of your texts and steer them towards completion.