In this lecture you will work through the phases of an academic writing project step by step:

You start with defining a topic for a short paper and develop a precise aim or research question. Based on this, you will learn methods to structure the writing process as well as the text product.

By applying different strategies of writing and reading in an efficient order, you will develop our text product continuously from a first draft to a second draft and end up with a final version that fulfils academic standards.

It is a “How to” course, in which you will theoretically and practically go through the following questions:

How to… ?

• find a good topic.
• distillate a specific research question, theses or hypotheses, or aim for the text
• build a good structure
• find and integrate appropriate literature
• get a first draft on paper
• improve content, argumentation and structure of your draft
• integrate feedback to come to a second draft
• improve your academic style an fulfil formal affordances
• finalise a text according to the CDS criteria
• manage the text production process step by step within the given deadlines
  
  

To finish this lecture you have to achieve a positive grade in each of the three grading parts: 2 ECTS =50h

• Active participation in class (22,5 h)

  You have to participate in interactive methods "in class". Therfore, for a positive grade (4), you have to participate in at least 6 full sessions. To achieve the best grade (1) you have to participate in all 9 sessions  (compensation of one missing session possible).

• Assignments (18h)
  You have to fullfill assignments ( parts of the text production process), that should be completed from one session to the next, usually, and uploaded on the base. For a positive grade (4), you have to deliver at least 6 assignments in time.To achieve the best grade (1) you have to submitt 9 assignments or more.

• Final Text product (9,5h)
  You have to deliver of a final text product in time, within the discussed dimension and quality. Deadline is the 31st of August 2026.

If you fullfill the criteria for a positive grade, the final grade will be calculated dependent on the 3 parts: (45%/45%/10%).