In this workshop, you will learn and apply various reading strategies to efficiently process academic literature. In the next step, you will learn how to appropriately prepare the literature you’ve read, in order to effectively incorporate it into your own academic writing.

Languages: English & German

Workshop Termine: 22.11.2024 & 31.01.2025

Workshop Uhrzeit: 10:00 bis 16:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 454776

The goal of the academic writing partnerships is for students from all countries and cultures to get to know and understand each other by working together on writing projects. This collaboration aims to promote cultural exchange (of knowledge) and integration. Teams will be formed to complete a writing project (e.g., seminar papers, reports, protocols, journalistic or creative texts). Students will learn about the requirements and expectations for different types of texts and discuss their experiences with writing in other languages (multilingualism).

Sprachen: English & German

Workshop Termine: 29.10.2024

Workshop Uhrzeit: 12:00 bis 14:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 457997

This workshop is aimed at international students, particularly first-year students, who want to familiarize themselves with the communication requirements at university. There are many new communication situations in academic life—such as listening in lectures, writing emails, or speaking with professors during office hours—that can often be challenging, especially if you're not yet familiar with academic language and university customs. The workshop offers practical exercises to help you navigate various communication situations with confidence, such as preparing for office hours, active listening in lectures, and written communication with faculty.

Languages: German (B2)

Workshop Termine (online): 07.11.2024, 21.11.24, 05.12.24 & 12.12.24

Workshop Uhrzeit: 16:00 bis 19:30 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 450907

This course is designed for students with advanced academic writing skills who have already written term papers and/or attended a course at the International Writing Lab. Additionally, participants should have experience with academic argumentation.

During the workshop, we will focus on the elements and structures of argumentative texts, analyze texts and formats that present complex arguments, and discuss their structures. Students are encouraged to bring texts from their own field to further develop and revise them. A key part of the workshop is reflecting on one's own academic writing and argumentation, which will be practiced throughout the course.

Some of the texts and materials we will analyze are in English, so knowledge of the English language is required.

Languages: German & English

Workshop Termine: 13.11.2024, 27.11.2024 & 11.12.2024

Workshop Uhrzeit: 16:00 bis 19:45 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 4501976

Recommended to students writing e.g. a seminar paper/master thesis this or next semester. This workshop targets students of international study programs and students who are working/ planning to work in a multilingual way in their academic writing and practice. Workshop participants will get to know various text genres relevant in law studies, and how to compose them adequately. A focus of this workshop is to raise awareness towards the individual multilingualism of the participants and to use this resource for one’s own academic writing.

Languages: German & Englisch

Workshop Termine: 09.12.2024, 16.12.2024 & 13.12.2024

Workshop Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 18:00 Uhr & 10:00 - 14:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 4503778

An Assessment Centre is a selection process in which candidates are tested for their suitability through various assessments. This workshop is designed to specifically prepare international students for the linguistic demands of an Assessment Centre. The focus is on developing language skills that international students can effectively apply in challenging exam situations. Participants will learn useful phrases, appropriate expressions, and persuasive communication strategies to help present their strengths clearly and confidently. Intercultural aspects will also be considered, preparing international students for potential cultural differences and their linguistic implications. Whether in group discussions, role plays, or presentations, this workshop provides the linguistic tools to act confidently and convincingly.

Languages: German (B2)

Workshop Termine: 19.12.2024, 16.01.2025, 23.01.2025 & 30.01.2025

Workshop Uhrzeit: 16:00 bis 19:30 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 450909

Recommended to students writing in class-exams ("Klausuren") at the end of this semester.

This workshop offers students the opportunity to familiarise themselves with different types of exams that are common in the context of a German university. Beside this learning techniques as well as time management before and during the exam will be a part of the practical work.

Languages: German & Englisch

Workshop Termine: 13.01.2025, 17.01.2025 & 20.01.2025

Workshop Uhrzeit: 14:00 bis 18:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 454777

Recommended for students in the humanities who will be writing their (first) papers this semester or next. In this workshop, you will get to know the process of writing a paper and how to write it in an appropriate (academic) style. For example, you can try out and reflect on strategies for developing your research question, structuring your paper, and writing a rough draft.

Sprachen: Deutsch (C1)

Workshop Termine: 12.02.2025, 19.02.2025 & 26.02.2025

Workshop Uhrzeit: 11:00 bis 14:45 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 454792

The workshop targets students with academic writing experience enrolled in international study programms, preparing a bachelor or master thesis and working/ planning to work in a multilingual way. In this workshop the process of writing a thesis will be taught and trained with a focus on the use of one's own multilinguality as a ressource for academic writing. Parts of this process include time management, evaluating relevant sources, drafting, structuring text and revising.

Onlineveranstaltung / Online workshop

Languages: German & English

Workshop Termine: 02.11.2024 & 03.11.2024

Workshop Uhrzeit: 14:00 bis 15:30 Uhr; 14:00 bis 18:00 Uhr; 14:00 bis 18:30 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 4503165

In this workshop, students expand their strategies for narrowing down a topic for a thesis and writing a synopsis. The workshop focuses on planning the upcoming larger writing project and breaking it down into sub-steps, presenting the planning of the writing project within a synopsis, relieving and preparing the writing of a synopsis through various strategies, giving appropriate feedback on planning sketches and drafts of the synopsis and taking feedback.

Sprachen: Deutsch & Englisch

Workshop Termine: 25.02.2025, 27.02.2025 & 03.03.2025

Workshop Uhrzeit: 10:00 bis 14:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsnummer: 457208