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This course tackles the fundamentals of modern academic writing in English, from processes like drafting and revision, to elements of a successful text like strong macrostructural organization, effective paragraphing, and clear style. It presents an approach designed to help you, as an advanced writer of English, produce a better final product: the polished, publishable draft. You will reflect on and progress your own writing process, and work with authentic academic texts in order to better understand the expectations of your audience and thus improve your own writing.

Ideally, participants will bring to the course an active writing project, as time will be devoted each session to the application of the workshops’ insights and methods to one’s own work. This writing project can be at any stage of the process, even the very early stages.

The following topics will be covered:

• effective writing processes for outlining, drafting, and revising with less stress;
• understanding the needs and expectations of one’s audience;
• finding an effective structure;
• significant sections of academic papers, such as introductions and abstracts, and how to organize them effectively;
• sentence- and paragraph-level improvements for better flow, clarity, and concision;
• (if of interest to participants) the limits and uses of current AI-supported tools for the academic research and writing processes, as well as how to use them ethically and according to the current standards of academic publishers.

Academic staff who want to improve their academic writing and editing skills.

independent intermediate communication ability, good knowledge of the English language (language level B2 and up)