Lehrende: Dr. Tobias Schmohl
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar / Übung
Orga-Einheit: Graduate School | ZUGS
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Academic Writing
Credits: 4,0
Standort: Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 8 | 14
Inhalte: Writing a doctoral thesis is challenging: extensive knowledge has to be organized in a short time. Conducting a structured approach and using suitable software tools can safe a lot of unessesary extra work and effort. The aim of this workshop is to explore and test an efficient and motivating way to write your doctoral thesis. In this workshop we combine the phase model of knowledge organization with methods of agile project management. Together we go through 6 work phases, or sprints: from first ideas to finished texts. You will work on your topic, i.e. you will be able to scale the exercise units to the question of your doctoral thesis. Description: This workshop offers the following program items: - Introduction: the phase model of knowledge organization, agile project management for writers - Sprint 1 Ideation: Collecting topics, concepts, arguments - Sprint 2 Relation: Clarifying correlations in a non-linear thinkmap - Sprint 3 Scheduling: Creating a hierarchical structure with super- and subordinate levels - Sprint 4 Sequencing: Development of the structure - Sprint 5 Aggregation: Designing Text Modules - Sprint 6 Integration: Assembling the building blocks and revising them - Finish: Anchoring, harvesting, transfer Methodology - short impulse presentations - intensive practice units (on your own topic) - individual coaching sessions (with one of the two trainers) - Exchange of experiences, discussion and reflection in the group Preparation - Select a research term that is as central as possible and that is related to the topic of your PhD project or under which your topic can be classified. - Conduct a keyword search in the library catalogue, in dictionaries, manuals, on the Internet and/or in specialist catalogues of your discipline - Look up relevant research contributions that are suitable for introducing the topic in an extended abstract to be developed by you during the workshop (min. 3 contributions, max. as many as possible in the available time of preparation for the workshop). - Read the research papers and extract them. You are also welcome to make initial notes and comments, paraphrases, summaries or reviews of the information collected. - Put down the extracted information so that you can quickly find it again during a writing exercise during the course and you can fall back on it (e.g. with docear, memonic or a literature management software). It would be ideal if you used a storage system with which you can later refer to individual knowledge components. [ts1]
Literatur: The literature will be announced in the workshop and made available together with the slides and a photo protocol.
