This workshop helps multilingual university students use AI critically, ethically, and transparently to support their academic writing while preserving their own authorship.

Focusing on academic writing in English, participants will explore the writing process, from planning and research to drafting, revision, editing, and reflection. They will consider how practice and focused feedback can strengthen sentence structure, coherence, and overall quality, and examine how AI can assist with planning, feedback, and language revision without replacing independent thinking or their academic voice. Drawing on students’ experiences, the workshop will also address academic integrity and the boundaries of appropriate AI use. Participants will learn to assess AI suggestions critically, verify information, and make informed choices while remaining accountable for their work.
 

Objectifs

• Describe the main phases of an academic writing process, for example, planning, researching, drafting, revising, editing and reflecting;
• Identify their personal strengths and difficulties in those phases of academic writing, especially in relation to idea development, text structure, cohesion, coherence, academic style, grammar, paraphrasing and source use;
• Use AI critically and purposefully at appropriate stages of writing, for example, to generate questions, test an outline, receive language-feedback suggestions, compare formulations, or identify possible gaps in  the academic sources,  while evaluating AI suggestions for accuracy, relevance, bias, quality of language and academic appropriateness. 
• Apply selected writing process strategies with and without AI support, while distinguishing between legitimate AI support and inappropriate substitution of student authorship;
• Reflect on AI as a writing tool in relation to academic integrity, ownership, privacy and their own learning process. 

Public-cible

Etudiant·e·s

Especially multilingual university students, especially immigrants and students for whom English or German are not their first languages. 

Prérequis

For this workshop students do not need any special foreknowledge. The workshop may be supported in English and German languages. Access to your preferrable AI platform for a writing exercise in the class is recommended. Maybe a basic understanding of academic writing, such as argumentation, source use, structure, and revision would be beneficial. However, it is not a must.  

Responsables et intervenants

Intervenant(s)

Alina Khmylovska van der Koelen 

Dates et lieux

Période	Lieu
20.11.2026 de 13:15 à 17:00	B205