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Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication ACLC

PhD Skills | Advanced Academic Writing Follow-up

The goal of these follow-up workshops is to provide individualized and in-depth writing assistance to PhD candidates in the final year of their PhD programme. We will focus on the challenges that you face in the writing-up stage of your PhD, such as developing your self-editing skills and writing effective and coherent paragraphs, sections and chapters. In these workshops we will further develop and reinforce your advanced academic writing skills.
Date
30 September 2025
Time
15:00
Location
Oudemanhuispoort
Room
E2.12A
Organised by
Lotte Tavecchio

Course description

  • Refresher class: reviewing main themes of Advanced Academic Writing course, e.g. word choice, sentence structure, punctuation and paragraph structure on the basis of an analysis of your own texts.
  • Text organisation: paragraphs and sections: coherence, transitions, structure/content of particular sections (e.g. introductions/conclusions)
  • Text organisation: chapters and/or academic articles: overall structure, coherence, transitions between paragraphs/sections
  • Self-editing skills: reviewing different approaches to self-editing, writing concisely, reviewing grammar, word choice and punctuation, checking tone and style.

The instructor will hold intake meetings with all participants before the first workshop to gain insight into your learning needs and goals.

 

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