Academic Legal English: Improving Speaking and Writing Skills
This course is intended to help participants communicate about their work in English more confidently and effectively at international conferences, both in formal presentations and in informal discussions. The course will also focus on ways of improving the style, clarity, and naturalness of the participants’ academic writing.
Target Group
Researchers at doctoral and postdoctoral level in various fields of the law.
Workshop Goals
The workshop aims to help you:
- Talk about legal issues in English
- Explain your academic work, relating it to different concepts and systems of law
- Gain confidence in speaking publicly about your work and responding to questions about it
- Improve your academic writing
Workshop Content
- Useful phrases for comparing and contrasting concepts and systems, explaining what a law stipulates, explaining your research interests, etc.
- Impact strategies for presenters
- Detailed presentation feedback
- Asking and responding to questions
- Avoiding German interference and common grammar and usage errors in writing
Important: To ensure that the work on the participants’ writing and speaking skills is as relevant as possible, some of the material used in the sessions will be provided by the participants themselves in the form of writing samples (2-3 page excerpts from the participants’ own papers or theses). These writing samples will serve as a starting point for discussions of grammar, usage, and style.
Thus, participants are asked to:
- Submit a writing sample to the instructor one week before the first session.
- Bring a short Powerpoint presentation (2-3 slides) introducing themselves and their research interests to the first session.
Location, Date and Time
Thursday, 12 February 2015, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Thursday, 26 February 2015, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.
Fees and Registration
This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 29 January 2015.
Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.
To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. For any further information please contact Elke Rittersbacher ( elke.rittersbacher@wu.ac.at, DW 4448).
The course fee is €40.
Trainer
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Univ.-Lekt. Mag. Amy Bruno-Lindner
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