GGS-Workshop: "Planning, Writing, and Presenting Academic Research" (in business administration and economics)
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/zentren/ggs/veranstaltungen/index_html/sose2025/planning-writing-presenting
- GGS-Workshop: "Planning, Writing, and Presenting Academic Research" (in business administration and economics)
- 2025-09-23T09:00:00+02:00
- 2025-09-24T17:00:00+02:00
23.09.2025 09:00 bis 24.09.2025 17:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Room 001, Licher Strasse 68, 35394 Giessen
Doctoral candidates and early-stage postdocs. The course targets participants from all areas in business administration and economics (particularly accounting, economics, finance, management).
| Instructor: | Professor Dr Peter Limbach | |
| Dates: | September 23, 2025, 9.00 am – 5.00 pm (Planning/Pitching + Presenting), September 24, 2025, 9.00 am – 5.00 pm (Writing + Miscellaneous) |
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| Max. participants: | 6 | |
| Course language: | Abstracts, presentations, and discussions must be written/held in English | |
| Registration Deadline: | August 20, 2025 | |
| ECTS: | 4 |
Objectives
People are busy and there are tons of research papers and conferences out there, which is why you are always fighting for attention and competing for conference participation and journal space. On top of that, people are impatient, get distracted, and tend to misunderstand what you say and write. In this hands-on interactive course, participants will learn how to deal with these issues to successfully convey their message and sell their research. As part of the course, participants work on (1) planning and pitching their own research ideas or papers, (2) presenting and discussing research by established authors, (3) writing concise abstracts and introductions, and (4) preparing self-contained tables and figures that allow readers to skim but still understand papers. The course also provides a Q&A session and some insights into the planning of research projects and the editorial process.
- Improve your ability to plan, pitch, and execute academic research.
- Improve your communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Improve your writing skills (e.g., how to write an abstract and introduction; how to facilitate skimming; flow; structuring a paper, tables and figures; English language and writing style).
- Improve your presentation skills (e.g., slide design and the structure of a presentation; English language; body language; psychological aspects; answering questions the right way).
- Learn how to discuss a paper (e.g., how to convey criticism; the structure of a discussion; which aspects of a paper to criticize; how to assess empirical work).
- Comprehend why writing and presenting papers is important and why you need to write in a concise way, how similar writing and presenting are, and what you should and should not do.
- Recognize that more or less every paper can be criticized and what that means for your own research, papers, and presentations as well as for the selection of topics to work on.
- Improve your economic and econometric understanding and reasoning.
- Understand the editorial process.
You can find more details in the syllabus "Planning, Writing, and Presenting Academic Research".