Workshop "Academic writing and publishing"

Tuesday 18 Jan 2022, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

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How to create and publish good texts

 

For many scientists writing and publishing is the most difficult part of research work. However,
for the success of academics it is essential that the content is successfully conveyed to the
relevant target groups – from the subject community to the wider public.

 
The methods and instruments of academic writing and publishing can be learnt. With a few
select mechanisms for structuring and techniques for building arguments, it becomes possible to
articulate even complex data clearly and comprehensibly. If, in addition, the handling of
publishers, journals and referees is on a professional level, publications become far easier
manageable.

 
In this workshop the process of academic writing and publishing is highlighted from the first
idea through the structuring and formation of the text to its completion and publication. The
participants engage with the content related, formal and organisational aspects of writing and
train their text competency with exercises. The following topics are covered:
>> Abstract, article, review and monograph: Text types and reasons for writing in academia
>> From idea to text: Topic selection, structure, argumentation
>> Rummaging, digging, serving it hot: Research strategies
>> Writing as a process: Utilising creative bursts – avoiding blocks
>> Impact factors, rejection rates, publication processes: Criteria for journal selection
>> Delicate business: Communication with the publishers and the referees
>> Academic writing and publishing: My next steps

 

Dr.-Ing. Bartlett Warren-Kretzschmar, Hanover, was born in New York and studied Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Cornell University. She has been teaching courses in landscape architecture and environmental planning at both American and German universities for the past thirty years. She was a guest professor in the international Master of Landscape Architecture programme at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Bernburg and professor in the Bioregional Planning Programme at Utah State University, where she also offered courses in research skills and scientific writing, as well as communication and rhetoric. Presently she is teaching in the Environmental Planning Department at Leibniz University Hannover.