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Workshop series in the lecture-free period of the winter semester 2024/25

Reading techniques

Finding your Topic and Research Question


Module Paper Workshop: 18th February - 6th March 2025

In February, a brand new round of our Module Paper Workshop will begin. A small group of students will be supported and accompanied in writing a (module) paper in English.

Students of all disciplines are welcome to join.

About: You already have an idea about the module paper you need to write. However, you feel lost about how to further research, grow or structure your text, or how to revise and edit it. If this situation sounds all too familiar for you, we have a solution in the form of a 3-week module paper workshop. Here, you will get to know about the various steps of the writing process, along with various writing tools and methodologies to shape your module paper towards a final submission.

What to expect: Over the 3 weeks of the workshop, you will work with your individual idea for your text; understand the writing process in detail; get to use various tools and methodologies to write your academic text; work individually and also in groups in order to explore different text-writing phases and styles; thereby bringing your text towards completion and ready for submission.

You would be able to use the workshop to your optimum benefit:

  • If you already have formed an idea on what your module paper will be about when you join the workshop
  • If you write everyday preferably for at least an hour throughout the duration of the 3 weeks

This will help you stay up to speed with completing your academic text within the duration of the workshop.

What to expect:

  • 3 weeks: 18th February - 6th March 2025
  • every tuesday and thursday, 10:15 a.m.-11:45 p.m.
  • online via Zoom

If you sign up you have to be ready to attend all meetings. You will get enough time to write individually, exchange ideas in groups, and get feedback from our trained writing tutor,  Lea Thelow and Fiona Wünsch.  At the end of the process, you will be rewared with a text which is ready to be read.

Registration for this workshop is open from February 3, 2025: here

Please note: Our workshops start as indicated at the full hours!

The workshops will only be held if there are at least 3 registrations.

Our workshops are mainly addressed at students of the University of Potsdam; primarily BA and MA students! If you are affiliated with another university please send an e-mail before your registration and ask whether we have capacities for external participants.

Potsdam Graduate School

If you are a PhD student at the University of Potsdam we recommend the workshops offered by the Potsdam Graduate School.

FAQs

If you have general questions concerning admission, registration or credit points etc. please have a look at our FAQ website.