Starting point

Do you often postpone your writing? Keep staring at a blank screen, struggling how to begin? Does your manuscript or thesis writing advance too slowly as you fight with every sentence, questioning almost every word?

Aim

You are familiar with techniques that enable you to write efficiently and with ease. You know how to resolve a writer's block. You have developed your individual action plan to sustainably improve your self-management and your writing productivity.

Contents

• Test yourself: What type of writer are you?

• Guided experimentation with your writing technique

• Reflection upon your self-management and writing habits

• Effective self-management techniques

• Elements of writing productivity

• Development of your individual action plan

Methods

• Input

• reflection

• discussions in group and pairs

• writing exercises

Notes

Please bring to the training your laptop as well as a recent result of yours (figure, table, etc) or an academic article that you are currently reading.

Student workers are welcome, subject to availability.

You will receive a certificate of participation after successfully completing the course (at least 80% active participation). You can download these directly from your course!

Details

Date:

Mo., 19.01.2026, 09:00am-05:00pm

Scope:
1 day, 10 working units à 45 min

Format:
ZEWK, Fraunhoferstraße 33-36, 10587 Berlin, r: FH1004

Instructor:
Dr. Martina Michalikova