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151-0091-10L 0.4 Credits BSC D-MAVT
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Engineering Tool: Scientific Writing

Ingenieur-Tool: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben

Lecturers & Examiners: Melanie Walter, Thomas Korner
All Engineering Tools courses are for MAVT Bachelor’s degree students only. Number of participants limited to 60.
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Last Updated: 2026-02-05 15:35:20

Abstract

Participants acquire scientific writing basics as a core competency to communicate with different audiences. They apply important methods and tools to refine a scientific question, research and evalutate the necessary information, quote and paraphrase, and to plan the structure of their own text.

Objective

Students are able to - derive and structure ideas for a text starting from a scientific question using simple techniques - find literature sources, check their relevance and completeness, organize them with a suitable tool and cite correctly - apply a reading technique for summarizing a text - distinguish plagiarism, quotation and paraphrase in texts using the presented criteria and correctly cite or paraphrase external content - use and cite information from the Internet correctly - plan and structure specialized texts that refer to different target groups

Content

KURSPROGRAMM LEHRFORMEN - Inputs: Kurzvorträge und Selbstlernsequenzen - Uebungen: Hausaufgaben und während des Nachmittags selbständig in Moodle anhand von Fallstudien - Feedback und Diskussion: Lösungen der Studierenden werden gemeinsam mit den Dozierenden besprochen und diskutiert Zu allen Inhaltsteilen gibt es Übungsteile in Moodle, für die ein Laptop mit funktionierendem Internetanschluss benötigt wird.

General Information

Language
German
Levels
BSC
Frequency
Yearly recurring

Examination

Type
ungraded semester performance
Prüfungsleistung sind eine aktive Teilnahme an der Lehrveranstaltung und das Bearbeiten und Einreichungen der Onlineübungen.

Registration & Places

Max Places
60
Signup End
15.09.2020
Priority: Registration for the course unit is only possible for the primary target group

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
colloquium Ingenieur-Tool: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben
Blockkurs in der ersten Semesterwoche. Die genauen Unterrichtszeiten von ONLINE - Veranstaltungen werden von den Dozierenden kommuniziert.
  • 15.09 Date 14:00-18:00 (ON LI NE)
  • 16.09 Date 14:00-18:00 (ON LI NE)
  • 17.09 Date 14:00-18:00 (ON LI NE)
12 h semesterly

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