Content

This workshop is open for both beginning as well as experienced writers. The emphasis is not on teaching what is “right” and “wrong” but on presenting the trade-offs between several options and helping you to articulate your voice as a writer.

The workshop is composed of two parts.

Part I. Improve Your Writing Skills (Christina Pawlowitsch)

Content:

• Attitudes (How to make yourself write: Confidence and Routine,  Choices, …)
• “I” or “we”? Or “one”?
• Who are you writing for?
• Structure
• References (Two basic systems: notes or author-date style; When to put a reference?)
• The “micro” structure of writing: words and phrases (punctuation, prepositions, modifiers,  …, activating sentences)
• Writing mathematics
• Finding your own voice

Lecture notes are available on Christina Pawlowitsch’s website: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/christina.pawlowitsch/ (go to “Teaching” and scroll down).

PART II. Applications and Exercises in Management and Economics  (Prof. Josef Windsperger https://im.univie.ac.at/windsperger/univ-prof-dr-josef-windsperger/)

Content:

• Guidelines for conducting research
• Strategies for publishing a research paper
• Use of examples from the literature
• Discussion of abstracts/proposals submitted by the participants