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Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Writing in a team is a requirement that you will encounter in the course of your studies, in university research and in your career. Working on a text together is both an opportunity and a challenge.

In the online course, you will learn how to use both for yourself and your writing group by getting to know different writing behaviors and their respective strengths. You will deal with the criteria of academic writing and receive concrete instructions on how to fulfill them in a team. Using practical exercises, you will learn how to make the joint writing process productive and how to clearly define your topic. Knowledge of the basics of good communication in a group will enable you to develop a topic together in discussion and think it through further. After completing the online course, you will be able to organize a writing project in the group independently, resulting in a scientific text with consistent content and style.

The online course is suitable both for groups facing a joint writing task and for individuals who want to learn techniques for collaborative work on a text. The target group is students from all subject areas.

Please note the following information for the winter semester 2025/26:

The online course starts with an approx. 30-minute introduction via MS Teams on 07.11.25 at 09:30. You can work on the course as a group or will be assigned to a group after this introduction. A second online appointment on 14.11.25 at 09:30 will give you the opportunity to clarify questions about group formation and assignments. You can access the content of the online course at your own pace.

As the course is also available in English to students from other European universities via the European University Alliance EPICUR, the primary language of the course is English. The course content is available in both German and English. In the writing groups, you will have the opportunity to practice collaboration across universities, countries and languages.

Workload for ECTS:

2 ECTS: Working on the course and submitting 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:

Franziska Duch studied German Studies (M.A.) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She has been working as a research assistant at the Writing Lab of the House of Competence (HoC) since 2022. She develops online courses and courses on academic writing and text-generating AI.