*Taking control of your writing (GSGG/GFA) in person
Trainer: David Kreitz
Date: Monday, September 7, 2026, 9 am - 5 pm
Place: GSGG conference room, Friedländer Weg 2, 37085 Göttingen
Language: English
max. 12 participants
No credits are awarded for this course.
Registration: Please, register online via registration form for GSGG courses. Please also note our registration procedure.
We all want to be productive writers. But because everyone writes differently, the first step towards productivity is to know yourself as a writer. To take control of your writing, you need to make tacit knowledge explicit and turn it into conscious working habits.
Therefore, you need to
- Know the writing process: in general, and your own.
- Track your writing: what do you actually do when you write?
- Optimize your writing: know what not to do anymore, and what to do instead!
The workshop is thus centered around writing process management, reflecting on writing experiences, improving your writing strategies, and controlling the quality of your text production.
To achieve this, we will have input, discussion and feedback, we will analyze your writing and apply different writing strategies. All exercises are straight hands-on approaches to reflect on intellectual craftsmanship or producing texts that can (with a little effort) be directly used for the thesis or other PhD-related projects.
After our one day workshop, all participants are eligible to a 30 min writing consultation as part of the workshop.
Please note: this workshop is not an English for Academic Purposes language class, nevertheless we will deal with stylistic features of academic prose.
About the trainer: David Kreitz has been working in the field of writing didactics since 2009. He studied sociology and American Studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Boulder (CO, USA) and received his training and further education as a writing tutor at the University of Göttingen and the University of Teacher Education Freiburg. For many years, David Kreitz was editor of "JoSch – Journal of Writing Studies" as well as the book series "Theory and Practice of Writing Studies". David Kreitz currently works as an adult educator at Mariaspring – Ländliche Heimvolkshochschule e. V., where, in addition to social and historical-political topics, he is responsible for writing retreats. Publications: primarily anthologies and articles on the teaching of writing, as well as extensive reviewing work on topics in the social, cultural and writing sciences.