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Jump-Start Your Writing: Tips and Methods for Planning and Writing Academic Texts

Jump-Start Your Writing' offers an interdisciplinary insight into the craft of academic writing. The booklet supports students with and without writing experience in writing all types of academic texts during their studies, such as term papers, protocols, document theses, and final theses.
The booklet contains a compilation of collected methods, tips and checklists from six years of work at the Writing Center of Dresden University of Technology.:Basics 7
Work Phases in Scientific Writing Projects 8
1 Orientation and Planning 11
Checklist Meeting with Supervisors 12
Clustering 14
Table for the Delimination of your Topic 16
Three-Step-Exercise 19
2 Collecting and Arranging Materials 21
Reading Strategies 22
Critical Reading 23
Four Column Reading – A Technique to Excerpt Literature 25
3 Developping Text Structures 27
Structuring your Work with IMRaD 28
Flash Exposé 31
The Sticky Note Method to Plan your Writing Project 33
4 Producing Text (“Rough Draft“) 35
Thread of Thought and Text Path 36
Scientific Language 38
Freewriting 41
Argumentation in Scientific Texts 43
5 Revising Text and Getting Feedback 45
Text Revision 46
Checklist Revising the Structure of your Academic Work 48
Constructive Feedback 49
6 Final Corrections 53
Formal Correctness, Orthography and Grammar 54
7 Time and Self-Management 57
Writing Types: Structure Followers and Structure Creators 58
Writing Habits 61
Setting Goals with the SMART Method 64
Planning your Writing Time with the Tomato Technique 65
Bibliography 68

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:87238
Date19 December 2023
CreatorsKirály, Rose Sharon, Hösl, Paulina, Beerbaum, Theresa
ContributorsSamuelsson, Ulrike, Melching, Nina, Bosse, Robert, Swidsinski, Andrej, Reuter, Leonie, Mewes, Antje, Busch, André, Dresden University of Technology
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:book, info:eu-repo/semantics/book, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-872373, qucosa:87237

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