Reports & Projects
Current projects
- 'Ready to go?! Core competencies of academic writing, research and thinking for successful studies in cooperation with the Institute of Media and Communication, 01.09.2024 - 31.08.2025 financed by the Digital Teaching and Learning Fund (DLL)
- SMART WRITING in the ESF network project sTUDy smart, 01.04.2024 - 31.03.2026, financed by the European Social Fund (ESF)
Completed projects and offers
- Reading and writing process design: inklusiv@TUD - measures to improve needs-oriented support for neurodivergent students, especially those with ADHD and LSR, in writing and teaching consultation at the TUD Writing Center, 01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024, financed by special funds for inclusion from the SMWK 2024
- 12/2021 - 12/2023 Comprehensive newsletter with tips for Research Associates
- Textbuddy-/Writing Fellow Program
- until 03/2022: Writing marathon for all students
- Writing Motivation Weeks in March and September 2021
- 08/2020 - 03/2022 Methods workshop writing marathon in the supplementary teaching area
- 03/2020 - 2021: virtual writing center, e.g. in the TU Matrix with the home office community (insight via a news item on the home office community and a report in the university journal 09/2020)
Overview of project reports SZD@TUD 2021-2023
History & milestones of the Writing Center
- from 01/2024: the organization of the Writing Center is firmly anchored at TU Dresden
- 12/2023 to 12/2021: Project "SZD@TUD" (review and short report), funded by the Federal and State governments' Higher Education Pact 2020 program as part of TU Dresden's overall concept to support students in their academic success.
- 03/2017: 1st Long Night of Writing (LNDS) at TUD (since 2020 digital, since 2021 with cooperations nationwide)
Das Design des Schreibzentrums als eines der Studienerfolgsprojekte 2018.
- 12/2020 to 04/2016: Cooperation project of the Career Service and the Center for Continuing Education financed by the Higher Education Pact as a writing center with a focus on "academic writing" and "study- and career-relevant key competencies" (review & short report)
Publications
- Writing Center of the TU Dresden and others, publisher. Writing to get started. Tips and methods for planning and writing academic papers. Writing methods for students and lecturers. 2023. to the Writing Start Guide (PDF with form function)
- Melching, Nina: The Writing Center at TU Dresden, promoting writing and key skills - supporting teachers. In: Schulze-Stocker, Franziska, Christian Schäfer-Hock, and Henriette Greulich. Wege Zum Studienerfolg: Analysen, Maßnahmen Und Perspektiven an Der Technischen Universität Dresden 2016 - 2020. Dresden: TUDpress, 2020, pp. 393- 426. Online on qucosa.