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11.06.2019, 11:30 - 14:00 Uhr
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07. Juni 2019 00:00 Uhr

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Beschreibung

 

 

 

Language Lunch: Punctuation

 

 

 

At first glance, punctuation may seem like a minor issue. Surely commas, hyphens and semi-colons can’t make that much of a difference? Actually, they can. Punctuation is an essential tool for improving the comprehensibility and rhetorical impact of texts. In English, there are fewer hard-and-fast rules governing punctuation than in German. Perhaps paradoxically, that tends to make it more difficult, not less, to punctuate correctly.

 

 

Target Group

 

 

Researchers who wish to brush up their knowledge of English punctuation in order to boost the quality of their academic writing.

 

 

Workshop Goals

 

 

The module will enable participants

 

  • To appreciate how punctuation contributes to efficient written communication.
  • To identify the key differences between English and German punctuation.
  • To use punctuation more confidently.

 

 

 

Workshop Content

 

 

  • The comma in English
  • Other punctuation marks (e.g., the hyphen, dash, apostrophe, semicolon)
  • How to punctuate dates and figures

 

 

 

Location, date and time

 

 

 

Tuesday, 11 June 2019,  11.30 am - 2.00 pm



All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.

 

 

 

Fees and Registration

 

 

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 28 May 2019.
Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

 

To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page.
For any further information please contact Elke Rittersbacher (elke.rittersbacher@wu.ac.at, Ext. 4448).

 

The course fee is €10.

 

 

 

Trainer

Prof. Dr. Gerlinde Mautner
 

  • Professor of English Business Communication, WU
  • Honorary Visiting Professor, Cass Business School (City University, London, UK)
  • Research focus: organisational and marketing communication; critical discourse analysis; legal discourse (see https://www.wu.ac.at/ebc/about-us/team/gerlinde-mautner/
  • Frequently conducts research at British universities
  • Has published widely in international outlets
  • Acts as a reviewer for top-rated journals
  • Many years of experience in training post-docs and faculty in academic writing
  • Author of Englische Grammatik für die Wirtschaftskommunikation (Linde-Verlag, 3rd ed., 2014), Wissenschaftliches Englisch: Stilsicher Schreiben in Studium und Wissenschaft (utb 3444; Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed., 2016) and Discourse and Management: Critical Perspectives Through the Language Lens (Palgrave, 2016).

 

 

 
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