Proofreading & Revision

You have finished writing your report, seminar paper or thesis, but can't find anyone to read it and give you feedback? You've delved so deeply into the topic of your paper - and you're unsure whether anyone other than you will even understand your text? Then get exemplary text feedback in the writing consultation and take advantage of our pool of of volunteer proofreaders!

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Proofreading assistance is for students who have questions about the spelling, grammar, and understandable style of their writing assignment. To overcome these challenges, a dedicated, often retired, volunteer reads your entire text and provides advice and assistance.

If you are interested, please send an email to . We will first invite you to a writing consultation to discuss your exact concerns, and then refer you to a person from our proofreader pool. Proofreading help works only when there are at least three weeks left until the writing project is due or if you still have enough time. It is also possible that you submit individual chapters one after the other after prior consultation.

You can also find more information in our news article "Writing Center: Offer of proofreading assistance for students of the TU Dresden" under "Aktuelles".

If you have any questions left, please feel free to contact Tobi directly:

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Tobias Dittrich

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Writing Center of TUD

Writing Consultation

The writing consultation is an individual discussion with our trained writing peer tutors on everything that is currently bothering you about your current writing project (thesis, seminar paper, project work, etc.). If you have questions about linguistic or stylistic revision, we will give you exemplary feedback or make sample corrections based on a short text excerpt (help for self-help).

Unlike proofreading help, you will not receive feedback on your entire text, but you can bring drafts of your text or just the topic of your work to the writing consultation and use the feedback for your further writing process. In addition, you can discuss your working process, address all your questions and possibly concerns, and get tips on methods, e.g. how to find a question or how to develop the thread for your text in a meaningful way.

You can also find specific information about text feedback in this FAQ:

What is a text feedback?

We will give you feedback on excerpts of your work. However, this does not include editing or proofreading. The aim of the feedback session is to give you constructive and critical feedback on individual areas of your text so that you can continue to apply the information you have received and the methods we have worked out together to your work after the writing consultation. Sample corrections can be about finding common linguistic errors and helping you to correct them systematically.

What actually is text feedback?

Perhaps you have a very specific request as to what exactly you would like to receive feedback on. This could be, for example, the expression, the structure of the text or the argumentation. Then you are welcome to express your wishes by e-mail. If you would like to receive feedback on your text "just because", we will give you feedback on the aspects that particularly catch our eye.

In addition to feedback on a specific part of the text, text feedback can always lead to a more general exchange about the aim and structure of the text, which ideally facilitates further work on the text beyond the consultation.

What should I pay attention to?

Please note that we do not give feedback on non-academic texts such as applications or e-mail correspondence. If necessary, please contact other contact points, such as the Career Service.

If you would like feedback, , register for a regular writing consultation at OPAL. If possible, register for an appointment in good time (no less than 48 hours before the appointment) so that we have enough time to read your text.

As soon as you have registered, we will contact you promptly by e-mail so that you can send us your text excerpt of up to five pages. If you have already developed an outline and a title or research question, you can also send these to us. If these are not yet available, please describe in three to five sentences the direction your work should take. This will make your text excerpts easier for us to understand.

You can also bring your text to the writing consultation spontaneously. Spontaneous feedback can also be helpful, even if it is different from prepared text feedback.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Reserve a time slot through Opal, course Writing Center („Schreibzentrum“)

Can't find a time slot that works for you? Make an appointment by emailing .

For more information on writing consultation, visit our website under Offerings "for Students" > "Writing Consultation".