41-11-2101-ku Academic Writing in German as a Second Language

Course offering details

Instructors: Dr. Rotraut Fischer

Event type: Course

Org-unit: Language Resource Center

Displayed in timetable as: Wiss. Schreiben

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Crediting for:

Hours per week: 2

Language of instruction: German

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Course Contents:
If you speak more than one language and are bilingual or multilingual, you have great potential! This course will develop this potential and concentrate specifically on developing your writing skills in German.

You will learn the fundamentals of scientific writing and the finer details of the grammar and style of scientific writing in German. We will discuss how to deal with literature, structuring a scientific paper and strategies for producing various types of academic writing. As part of this process we will be trying out various writing techniques ourselves.

Literature:
Material will be made available for a small fee.

Preconditions:
Ideally students will already be in the process of planning or writing a scientific project, paper or thesis.

Students whose mother tongue is not German must have a minimum of 80 points on the placement test.

Be aware that this is NOT a language learning course.

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Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Mon, 22. Oct. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
2 Mon, 29. Oct. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
3 Mon, 5. Nov. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
4 Mon, 12. Nov. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
5 Mon, 19. Nov. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
6 Mon, 26. Nov. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
7 Mon, 3. Dec. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
8 Mon, 10. Dec. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
9 Mon, 17. Dec. 2018 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
10 Mon, 14. Jan. 2019 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
11 Mon, 21. Jan. 2019 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
12 Mon, 28. Jan. 2019 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
13 Mon, 4. Feb. 2019 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
14 Mon, 11. Feb. 2019 08:00 09:40 S103/21 Dr. Rotraut Fischer
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Instructors
Dr. Rotraut Fischer