Writing for Publication

Pädagogische Hochschule FHNW

This course offers an opportunity to focus intensively on your academic writing and to advance your own paper.

Steckbrief

Lernsetting: Präsenz
ECTS-Punkte: 1
Nächster Start: 3.6.2026
Dauer: 3 Tage
Unterrichtssprache(n): Deutsch, Englisch (abhängig von den Teilnehmenden)
Durchführungsort(e): Brugg-Windisch
Preis: CHF 400
Format: Kurs
Zielpublikum: Dozierende an Hochschulen und Mitarbeitende an Hochschulen

Ziele und Nutzen

Course topic

The course supports you in drafting and/or revising scholarly texts in the social sciences and humanities in both English and German.

Course objectives

The immediate aim is for participants to produce texts that are correct, clear and convincing. The longer-term goal is that participants enhance their confidence and competences to communicate their research effectively, both as sole and co-authors.

Dieser Kurs ist auch Teil der Methodenwoche

Ein Kursangebot zu forschungsmethodischen und überfachlichen Themen.

Alle Kurse entdecken

Aufbau und Inhalte

Course methods / Learning activities

The course provides you with a supportive, concentrated and structured framework within which to draft and/or revise your scholarly texts.

The writing process and goals are subdivided into manageable formats distributed over three days: this includes introductions to capture readers› attention, accurate reporting of methods and well-argued discussions.

You will be familiarised with the features of scholarly writing based on current research and writing guides – from choosing the right word to writing clear sentences and crafting coherent paragraphs.
You will familiarise yourself with models of good writing in your own field and transfer what you deem appropriate to your own texts.
You will draft and/or revise chunks of your own text.
You will support each other with developmental feedback.
The lecturer will give feedback on parts of your text.

Date and location

Mi, 3.6.2026, 8.45–16.30 Uhr
Do, 4.6.2026, 8.45–16.30 Uhr
Fr, 5.6.2026, 8.45–16.30 Uhr

Brugg-Windisch

Dozierende

Dr. Stephan Meyer, Head of English at the Language Center (University of Basel)

Voraussetzungen und Zulassung

Zielgruppe

Dozierende an Hochschulen
Mitarbeitende an Hochschulen

Aufnahmekriterien

Participants will benefit most from the course if they, at the very least, have some data or concept that they can turn into a first draft; or if they have a draft they need to polish for submission to a supervisor or a publication; or if they have a text they must revise for resubmission.

Participants should bring along three publications by someone else that they consider well-written. Ideally one of these publications should be from a targeted journal.