Apr 30, 2022
Workshop: Understanding technical literature better in the seminar context
Do you know this: Sometimes you read a text for your seminar and afterwards you didn't really understand what the text was about? Or you are annoyed that you needed quite a lot of time for a relatively short text? If so, then the workshop with writing tutor Paulina Hösl from the TU Dresden Writing Center on Wednesday, May 11, 1 - 4 p.m. is a good place to start: Registration by Wednesday, May 11, 12 p.m. on OPAL.
Under the motto "Reading to get a topic", this workshop will take a closer look at the text as a basis for discussion. Reading academic texts takes place in discourse: The workshop will discuss how to critically question texts, engage with the position of:the author:in and, in the end, form your own opinion. Different reading strategies will be examined in more detail, which help to decode texts. In this way, critical reading and the independent handling of specialized literature are trained. And sometimes reading less is reading more, as Paulina argues in an article in our newsletter: "Steep Thesis: less is more - even when reading technical literature".
The workshop will be held in German. If you are looking for support for your undergraduate writing projects in English, please email us at or come to a writing consultation in English: More information about Writing Consultation.
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