19012: Academic Writing

Trainer:
Dr. Kaine Gülözer Leisse

Dates*:

• Friday, 16th Mai 2025 | 3 pm – 8 pm
• Saturday, 17th Mai 2025 | 9 am – 5 pm
• Friday, 23rd Mai 2025 | 3 pm – 8 pm
• Saturday, 24th Mai 2025 | 9 am – 5 pm

* at the full hour

Language:
This face-to-face seminar takes place in English and on campus. The room is specified in Stud.IP.

Course Content:
Writing academic papers is a recurring challenge for many students. Often, uncertainties arise regarding how to proceed, especially when there is little or no experience with academic writing. This seminar aims to provide an overview of the form, structure (IMRD - Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion), and reporting standards for different types of research papers across a range of academic disciplines such as the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and applied fields. Additionally, because the specific requirements for structure and content can vary significantly among disciplines, the seminar will emphasize reading techniques for skimming research papers and writing techniques to improve clarity, conciseness, and coherence. It will also cover types of citation, referencing, and ethical concerns. Students’ individual writing experiences and working papers will be addressed in a practice-oriented manner. To achieve this, interactive methods and personal feedback will be employed to help students overcome common problems in their academic writing. Through a series of exercises, students will explore and reflect on different methods to organize their academic writing processes more effectively. Both individual and common challenges will be addressed.

This seminar is aimed at students who are currently facing a writing task and are looking to improve their writing process.

Learning Goals:
This seminar will ask you to:

• Reflect on your own academic writing experiences and strategies.
• Reflect on how to write academic texts appropriately for your target audience and use this understanding as a guide when writing your own work.
• Reflect on your own academic language use and consider how it can be improved.
• Identify key characteristics of academic writing and apply these to your own writing tasks.

Study Performance:
Regular attendance and active participation, involving in practical exercises, reflecting on practical exercises, presenting work results, completing possible tasks between the course days.

Registration:

• on Stud.IP

Accessibility:
If you need barrier-free access, please contact us, as soon as you got a place in a seminar: seminare@zqs.uni-hannover.de

Credits:
2 Credits
 

Recognition:

Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree at Leibniz University of Hanover
Further information regarding your course of studies on the website:
zqs.uni-hannover.de/de/sk/leistungspunkte/anrechnung-studium

Interdisciplinary Bachelor’s Degree:
applicable to Area A of key competencies (non-scholastic focus)

Bachelor’s in Technical Education:
applicable to Area A,B of key competencies (non-scholastic focus)