Academic Writing for an English-speaking Audience

Please note: the workshop will be held in English.

Writing for an English-speaking audience – be it colleagues, supervisors or reviewers – is more than simply writing in English or translating. It means adapting your writing and your writing process to the conventions and requirements of a different, possibly international research community.

To equip you for this modern-day, everyday challenge, in this workshop we will:

• carve out the characteristics and particularities of academic writing in English
• focus on structuring ideas into topic sentences and meaningful paragraphs
• use this paragraph structure to organize and build arguments and texts
• establish effective reader guidance and reader orientation
• give and receive feedback on texts and work with authentic examples.

Depending on the needs of the group, other topics such as text types (e.g., abstracts, literature reviews) or grammar and style can be covered as well.

The aim of this workshop is to gain a more in-depth understanding of the needs and requirements of an English-speaking writing community and to apply this newly gained knowledge to your own texts and writing processes.

This workshop addresses MA and PhD students who write their theses in English. Best case, you already have sections or chapters or parts of articles that you can bring with you to the workshop.

Melanie Fleischhacker, Bakk. BA MA is currently finishing her cumulative PhD in Applied Linguistics. She is an experienced and trained writing coach and lecturer. She has been teaching academic and scientific writing in English for over ten years at the University of Klagenfurt. Additionally, she has accompanied both students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines throughout their writing processes. As a researcher, her language of daily communication, presentation, writing, and publishing is mainly English, and she is the editor-in-chief of the upcoming journal Coaching Science. She combines linguistic expertise with practical strategies to support fellow writers.