The interdisciplinary workshop aims at supporting you while planning and writing your final theses. Particular attention will be paid to techniques that help you organize and enjoy your writing (process); stylistic aspects, however, will take a back seat to substantial steps of paper-writing. You will be given lots of opportunities to try out techniques in order to expand your repertoire of writing strategies. Reflecting upon one’s own writing is just as important and will be combined with an exchange of ideas amongst participants.

You can sign up for all units to gain insight about all stages of the writing process, but it is also possible to just sign up for individual units, which are especially interesting for you.

 Contents:

• Unit I: the writing process, scheduling your writing process, writing strategies and sensible work steps.
• Unit II: themes, goal, research question, introduction and structural rework of a draft. First steps for your writing focus, orientation on the “red string” and structural rework of a text.
• Unit III: reading and using literature for your thesis, finding your own voice in your text, reading techniques, principles of reasoning and readability.

Current workshops:

Dates in May 2025 (in-person):

Monday, May 12, 2025

• Unit I: 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
• Unit II: 1.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Friday, May 16, 2025

• Unit III: 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

Rooms:

• May 12, Room E.0 206
  May 16, Room H7. 312

Dates in July 2025 (in-person):

Monday, July 21, 2025

• Unit I: 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
• Unit II: 1.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Friday, July 25, 2025

• Unit III: 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

Note: This workshop is offered in German. If requir

ed, we are happy to provide a bilingual participation option (German-English). Please contact the respective workshop leader by e-mail 10 days before the workshop date.

Our workshops thrive on active participation and exchange between all participants.

Please choose which units you want to visit depending on your current process in your writing, so that the exercises can help you in your writing process. Since we offer this workshop every two months, it might be more effective to only sign up for the unit matching your current writing phase instead of all of them.

• If you just started working on your thesis, we recommend only visiting Unit I & Unit II after you have a first idea for your topic and have already started working on it.
• Unit III is only recommended after you have already selected some of the literature you plan on using.

For the best possible experience of the workshop, we recommend actively participating and being willing to interact with other students.

As an alternative or beside, we also recommend individual advice to discuss a specific question about your writing project.

For a binding registration, please fill out the form below completely. Please note that we can only process complete registrations!

Important: If the registration form for the workshop does not work or the confirmation email does not arrive, you can also register by sending an email to kompetenzzentrum.schreiben(at)uni-paderborn(dot)de. Simply write all the data required in the registration form (name, e-mail, unit (I, II, III), study programme, semester, type of thesis) in the e-mail.