Work­shops offered by UPB's Writ­ing Cen­ter for PhD stu­dents

Twice a semester, Paderborn University's Writing Centre offers half-day or one-day workshops  on all questions related to writing in the doctoral process. The workshops will take place in German.

These are the workshops in 2021:

Starting your doctoral project
In this one-day workshop, everything revolves around the most important prerequisites for starting the doctoral writing project well prepared, motivated and goal-oriented.
Date: Thursday, 1 July 2021, 9:00-15:00
Info and registration (in German): https://www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/kompetenzzentrum-schreiben/veranstaltungsuebersicht/ins-promotionsprojekt-starten

Writing an exposé
A workshop for all doctoral students at the start of their doctorate who are writing an exposé on their project - for their own topic clarification, for supervisors or for a scholarship application.
Date: Thursday, 23 September 2021, 9:00-15:00
Info and registration (in German): https://www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/kompetenzzentrum-schreiben/veranstaltungsuebersicht/ein-expose-schreiben

Writing strategies for doctoral students
This workshop focuses on the process of writing in the narrower sense and shows various possibilities, approaches, exercises and strategies on how to get texts around the PhD going.
Date: Thursday, 28 October 2021, 9.00-15.00 hrs.
Info and registration (in German): https://www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/kompetenzzentrum-schreiben/veranstaltungsuebersicht/schreibstrategien-fuer-promovierende

Revision strategies for doctoral students
As a rule, academic writing does not get by without a thorough revision of existing outlines, drafts and text fragments. This workshop is aimed at PhD students who have already produced text and now want to find the red thread.
Date: Thursday, 2 December 2021, 9.00-15.00 hrs.
Info and registration (in German): https://www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/kompetenzzentrum-schreiben/veranstaltungsuebersicht/ueberarbeitungsstrategien-fuer-promovierende

Further information about the Writing Center can be found here (in English).