Place
Unicom Building
Room: 7.2210
Mary-Somerville-Straße 7
28359 Bremen
Time
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Organisation
Dr. Alex Veit

The workshop aims to familiarise participants with the characteristics of good academic writing in English. We will identify the key differences to German academic writing, starting with basic grammatical aspects such as the use of the active vs. passive voice and verbal vs. nominal constructions. We will then go on to discuss style more generally as well as the most important conventions in the structuring of academic papers.

The workshop will be practical in focus, involving the analysis of numerous concrete examples, including ones taken from the participants’ own English material. By the end, participants will have developed a clear set of tools that they can apply when producing their own academic writing in English.

Dr Margaret Hiley grew up in Britain, Canada and Germany as a bilingual speaker of English and German. She studied English at the University of Regensburg before earning a PhD in English Literature from Glasgow University, publishing her research in both English and German. She has since lectured at universities in the UK and Germany, becoming closely acquainted with the different structures and characteristics of both academic systems. For the last decade, she has worked as an academic translator, language editor, and peer reviewer helping hundreds of German-speaking academics to publish their works in English.

Please register with Alex Veit: veit@uni-bremen.de.