TUM English Writing Center

for students #

If you did not already know, you can get free one-on-one tutoring for anything written in English while affiliated with the TUM. The English Writing Center offers 45-minute appointments throughout the year. It is available online via Zoom and in person at the Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan campuses. These appointments will help you develop your writing skills on documents such as CVs and cover letters to theses and fiction novels.

On the other hand, for those of you who are strong writers who enjoy the writing process, they’re also hiring!

Visit our website for more information here And/or book your appointment directly here

for faculty #

The English Writing Center offers resources to help your students and/or you improve your English writing skills. TUM students (and other affiliates) can get free one-on-one tutoring for anything written in English. The English Writing Center offers 45-minute appointments throughout the year, available online via Zoom and in person at the Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan campuses. These appointments help develop writing skills in general while focusing on documents such as CVs and cover letters to theses and fictional stories.

This resource at TUM is currently underutilized and can aid your students through the following methods:

• Encourage students to use the EWC for their assignments
• Make one (or more) EWC consultations a mandatory course component. Instructors can also specify the assignment and specific writing skills they want the consultant to focus on. Professors who have done this have seen a notable improvement in the readability of their students’ assignment submissions
• Request a few Writing Fellows to a class to support a workshopping session. A good model here is to have small groups with three students matched with one Writing Fellow. The groups can then do, for example, three 20-minute rounds of workshopping, in which each person works with the others in their group
• Request to have one of the EWC Lecturers join a course for a guest lecture/workshop on English writing. This option is excellent for courses covering general scientific writing or research skills with instructors who would like to support teaching English scientific writing skills in particular

If your department has an existing writing course, the EWC could collaborate to lend your students even more support. They welcome you to contact us with any questions or suggestions and use the informational slide in your introductory lecture or any other lecture.