| Title | Time | Room | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific Writing and Argumentation | 06.11.2025 09:00 - 17:00 (Thu) | TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 101 | Tim Korver |
| Scientific Writing and Argumentation | 07.11.2025 09:00 - 17:00 (Fri) | TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 101 | Tim Korver |
This two-day interactive workshop is designed for doctoral candidates aiming to improve their scientific writing and argumentation skills, with a focus on dissertations and research articles. Participants will learn to produce clear, concise, and convincing scientific texts while also implementing AI tools to support productivity and streamline the writing process.
The workshop covers the fundamentals of structuring dissertations and research articles, developing strong arguments, and how to write effective abstracts, introductions, and discussions. Practical sessions will look at writing output, editing texts and integrating AI tools to optimize workflow.
- A deeper understanding of the key principles of good scientific writing
- Techniques for developing arguments precisely and convincingly
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to enhance work processes
- Practical skills to produce high-quality academic writing for dissertations and research articles
Short input on writing principles. Group work: Application to sentence-level texts and paragraphs. Individual work: Editing own texts. Pair work: Editing partner texts.
During the doctorate | at the end of the doctorate
As a workshop requirement, participants need to bring own draft texts and data from their research.
Please bring your own laptops for writing; access to an LLM such as chatGPT, Copilot or other.
Participants need to bring an abstract of their current research, or an abstract of a recent article from their research group.
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Tim Korver holds an MA in Applied Linguistics. His key interests lie in the rhetoric and argumentation of scientific research. As a trainer, he enjoys supporting learners in how to communicate their findings so that the audience understands why their research brings benefits to the field. He holds seminars and coaching at research institutes across Germany where he also focuses on ‚Presenting Research‘, ‚Reasoning and Argumentation‘ and supporting research groups in grant applications such as the DFG and ERC.