Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Academic language is subject to certain rules that differ depending on the type of text and discipline. Even experienced students often often find it difficult to understand the existing guidelines and recommendations regarding academic language style and to implement them correctly in a text. In addition, there are contradictory style requirements, e.g. in institute guidelines or made by supervisors, which cause even more confusion. In this online course, you will take an in-depth look at the concept of academic language and its practical application. In addition to an introduction to theory and function, you will learn about the characteristics of academic language and will be able to apply these independently to different types of texts and disciplines after completing the course. Practical writing exercises and individual feedback on your own texts round off the course.

Please note the following information for the summer semester 2025:

The online course starts with an approx. 30-minute Zoom introduction on 05.05.2025 at 11:00 a.m. and can be worked on flexibly thereafter. You will receive an email with the Zoom login details in advance. Please also note that booking a writing consultation (face-to-face or online) is required to successfully complete the course. You will receive information on the bookable dates in the Zoom introduction on 22.04.2024.

Work Expenditure:

2 ECTS: Completion of the course and submission of an exposé (incl. 2 pages of continuous text).
3 ECTS: Completion of the course and submission of an exposé (incl. 3 pages of continuous text).

 

Lecturer:

Cristina Blanck is a Germanist and writing didactician. She was a research assistant at the Writing Lab of the House of Competence from 2016 to 2023. There she taught and researched in particular on the topics of academic language and STEM subject writing didactics. She has been working as a research officer at TH Köln since the end of 2023.