Wissenschaft schreiben – beyond paper writing

Ich habe gerade eine Anfrage erhalten von einer Forschungseinrichtung, die sich durch eine immens wichtige Aufgabe und einen entsprechenden Anspruch auszeichnet: die weltweit besten WissenschaftlerInnen anzuziehen und mit diesen auf höchstem Niveau zu forschen. Hier geht es um Workshops für DoktorandInnen. Das habe ich zum Anlass genommen, mich zu fragen: Wie kann, wie muss in einem Umfeld mit diesem Anspruch die Schreibausbildung junger WissenschafterInnen aussehen? Weiterlesen

To get to the desired end, you have to forget about it

So you want to write a doctoral thesis or something similar? First of all you need to know where you’re headed; otherwise you’ll never get there:

  • You really have to know why you want to do this. The more complex, hard and time-consuming the project, the more important this will be.
  • You have to know your goal: what is it you aim for?
  • You have to know what this means for the text you are trying to produce: which criteria will it need to meet?

Yet at the same time you have to be aware that „writing“ actually means two completely different things: the text as an outcome, and the process leading to it. I assume you want to produce the best text possible. What must seem like a paradox to you is the central point of good writing:

To produce a really great text, quite often you will have to forget about all criteria for that when working your way towards it. Weiterlesen