Writing Support Services Individual Language Consultation
Take advantage of personalized one-on-one consultations with experienced writing coaches. Through nuanced feedback and strategic guidance, we’ll help you hone your language skills and refine your unique voice.
Our programs
Academic Writing Support in English: Individual Consultation and Tutoring
The program is tailored to doctoral researchers at Heidelberg University from all disciplines who are writing in English. Because the English academic writing style differs significantly from the German, this service aims to help non-native English speakers produce texts that meet the linguistic and stylistic conventions distinct to Anglophone academic writing.
Academic Writing in German: Text and Language Consultation for (International) Doctoral Students
The program is tailored to both native and non-native German speakers who are writing their dissertations in German, usually in the humanities or social sciences. The program is funded by the STIBET program, within the DAAD.
Further information about both programs
The purpose of both offers is to improve the writing and language competencies of doctoral candidates during different stages of their doctoral training. For an individual consultation, doctoral researchers may submit their own text passages, which are then revised and commented on by experienced German or English native speakers/scholars. researchers then may attend a follow-up meeting, where the writing consultant would be willing to discuss the researchers' errors and provide suggestions for improvement.
The feedback provided by the writing consultants is limited to linguistic issues only, i.e.
- grammar,
- spelling,
- punctuation,
- and conventions of the respective language.
The consultation aims to identify typical errors which can be avoided in the later stages of writing.
The following aspects of the text will not be discussed:
- content
- structure
- empirical rigor
Please be aware that the completed text passages (be they dissertation chapters or articles) should not be seen as final corrections.
Our language advisors
Writing consultations are currently offered by the following native speakers:
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| German Joshua Bahr | Joshua Bahr studied philosophy, political science, and classical archaeology at Heidelberg University from 2015 to 2022. Since 2023, he has been pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at Heidelberg University. Since 2019, he has been working at the Heidelberg Department of Philosophy, among other places, as a writing tutor for international students, assisting them with academic papers; he also works at the Academy of Sciences on the Karl Jaspers Complete Works project. | |
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| English S. Mukherjee | S. Mukherjee is a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with +10 years of experience in mentoring advanced students in the ‘art and craft’ of academic writing. Mukherjee holds degrees from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he conducted his doctoral work in political economy. He is the recipient of the Penn Lauder CIBER Research Grant, U.S. Department of Education’s Center for International Education and Research, the Judith Rodin Fellowship for distinguished work in the social sciences, and Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Teaching. |