for students
From your first transcript or term paper to your final thesis: the Writing Center team is happy to provide advice and assistance throughout your studies
An overview of all current offers for students as well as further information is listed below:
Are you looking for individual help? You would like to talk about your writing process? Or are you looking for constructive feedback?
Everything regarding your writing process can be a topic during writing consultation. No matter where in the writing process you are – from the first vague idea to the nearly finished text – you can always come to the Writing Center. You do not even need to have any written text and with whatever text you are writing, we will try to help you.
All information on what exactly a writing consultation is, what you can bring, when and where writing consultations take place and how you can register can be found on the website for Writing Consultation
Are you looking for basic information on academic writing and the topics around it? Are you looking for new strategies for learning and writing, and would like to talk to other about it and receive feedback?
In the winter semester 2021/2022, you can participate in live workshops: Our tutors will support you in your academic writing and give you tips: more information on our workshops in the winter semester 2021/2022.
The Career Service and the SLUB offer regularly an extensive workshop program on other key competence topics (mostly in German):
Du hast keine Zeit, einen Workshop zu einem bestimmten Termin zu besuchen oder möchtest dich selbst lieber allein einarbeiten?
Dann kannst du dich in der Infothek auf unserer Webseite umsehen - und wenn du doch über bestimmte Methoden, deinen indidivuellen Schreibprozess oder dein Schreibprojekt sprechen möchtest, jederzeit mit deinen Fragen - oder auch einfach so zum Austausch - in eine Schreibberatung kommen: weitere Infos zur Schreibberatung und Anmeldung.
Außerdem sammeln wir hier für dich kostenfreie E-Learning-Angebote der TU Dresden und der SLUB:
- E-Learning-Kurs "Literatur erfassen, verwalten und zitieren - Basiswissen Literaturverwaltungsprogramme" der SLUB (in OPAL)
- E-Learning-Kurs " DiLiNews - Alles rund um Digitale Kompetenzen im Studium" des Career Services (in OPAL)
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Videoreihe "Einführung ins wissenschaftliche Arbeiten", Institut für Germanistik, Marlene Rummel (auf YouTube) - nicht nur für Germanistik-Studierende geeignet :)
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Videoreihe "Wissenschaftskommunikation 2.0", Angewandte Linguistik TU Dresden (auf YouTube)
The workshops are offered in a peer learning format, made by students for students. If you are interested in workshops but you don't have time right noiw, then join the list and get all new information via e-mail.
The target group of the workshops are students of the TU Dresden, who are enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. PhD students will find offers of the Graduate Academy Website and Centre for Continuing Education Website more suitable.
Starting this semester, the Writing Center offers two workshop series (in German) in the studium generale, so that certificates of achievement with up to 2 CP can be earned:
- "Reading in Studies" from Oct. 18 to December, more information and registration on OPAL
- "Writing scientific texts: writing process and writing style" in February and March, further information and registration on OPAL
It is often easier to write and work together! We will help you found a group, give tips on how to work together productively and if needed, we can moderate meetings.
As of the winter term 2017/18, the Writing Center helps learning groups in cooperation with the Centre for Continuing Education.
All information on the learning and writing groups, with or without the help of a tutor, can be found here: continue reading webseite learning and writing groups
Sitting alone at your desk is boring? You can easily distract yourself and cleaning your apartment sounds much more appealing than typing on your keyboard? To help you concentrate on your writing project, you can write together with others during the writing marathon! All information on the writing marathon and it’s upcoming dates can be found at the main page for the Writing Marathon.
Having a suitable room for writing is very important in order to more concentrated. If you are able to write in company, you can come to the quiet and airy Writing Room at the TextLab (website SLUB), where you can write amongst kindred spirits, as well as bringing your Learning and Writing Group (website Writing Centre) or maybe meet new writing buddys.
Furthermore, there are open writing consultation sessions available, or you can register for an appointment online via OPAL.
On our Material & Tips webpage you will find all the information you need about our self-study offerings, tips and checklists for academic writing and papers, links to helpful software, and a FAQ with frequently asked questions.
Revision help for written works of SZD volunteers on individual request by e-mail to schreibzentrum@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
About Tutors for Academic Writing and Key Competences
The diversity of offers at the Writing Center is made possible with the support of student tutors. Our student tutors mainly carry out the workshops and counselling offers for students. This encourages joint learning with peers, which makes it easier to ask questions openly and discuss strengths and weaknesses, as well as talk about experiences. We train the student tutors for their assigned tasks. The structuring, implementation, evaluation and development of this training and the close supervision of the tutors are amongst the central tasks of the Writing Center.
Our offers are free of charge for students and teachers of the TU Dresden. Please note our privacy statement and disclaimer for all our offers.
How does the Writing Center support me in my studies? An explanatory film:
Accessibility Note: Detailed video description to read and have read aloud at https://tud.link/25u4.
The project "Schreibzentrum@TUD" is one of the study success projects of the TU Dresden. You can find more study success projects on the website tud.de/studium/im-studium/studienerfolg and in the OPAL course "Studienerfolgsprojekte".