News

• If you want to write together with your fellow students, join us iin the  Writing Week.
• Dates for our (German) classes on academic writing in the break are online. 
• The University of Antwerp developed a learning tool that helps you to acquire academic writing competencies in English.
• We can meet face-to-face again (with FFP2-masks). However, Zoom is stoll possible.
• Our group of writing in Zoom is now meeting mondays from 9:30 to 11:30. If you want to participate, please write an e-mail to: schreibzentrum-philfakuni-koeln.de.
• There is a version of Citavi for Mac computers.
• The free online-programme Plastischer Reader supports users in finding and correcting (German) orthographic and language weaknesses.Since it works with a rather good translation tools, it can also support users whose first language is not German in testing whether their texts might need revisions in working or grammar.
• A new edition of our book "Wissenschaftlich schreiben - gewusst wie" was brought out.
• At the moment, our consultations take place on Zoom. It's best to make an appointment, but you can also try out Zoom to see if you can reach us directly.
• The online Writing-tutorial on the Ethics of Science(in German) is online.

The Writing Centre was established in 2007 and has ever since been a reference point when it comes to research and writing in an academic context at the University of Cologne. As part of the Dean's Ooffice, we offer a great variety of services: singular as well as regular peer-coaching, compact seminars and cooperative teaching on methods and techniques of writing in an academic context. We also offer a trainee programme for students interested in becoming writing coaches themselves.

In addition to these various services, an ongoing topic of research at our Centre focuses on the linguistic and psychological aspects of the writing process.

Follow the links below to take a closer look