Speaker | Date | Time | Format | Subject |
Dr. Mark Kyburz | Wednesday, 4 June 2025 | 14.00-18.00 | face-to-face | Fair and efficient supervision & assessment |
Supervising and assessing student writing (e.g. seminar papers, bachelor's and master's theses, PhD dissertations) can be challenging. Although supervisors realise that students need support, their lack of experience or tools (or work pressures) may hamper the supervisor-student relationship. This workshop introduces various strategies (coaching techniques, academic writing resources, grading rubrics, etc.) to help supervisors cope effectively with the demands of their role. It also explores a related challenge: supervising and assessing students writing in English as a second language.
Teaching assistants, lecturers and other faculty interested in developing or expanding their ability to supervise and assess student writing.
is Team Leader English at the University of St. Gallen’s HSG Writing Lab (Centre for Academic Writing). He has almost 30 years of experience as an editor, translator and writing coach. Mark has taught academic and business writing for over 30 years at universities in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and West Africa. His work has appeared with renowned publishers and in top-ranked journals. He has also run his own language agency since 1990 and has completed basic and further training in solution-focused coaching.
What should be maintained in the course?
For employees of the University of St.Gallen, the course fee is covered by the University. External participants will be charged CHF 180.- for a half-day course and CHF 300.- for a full-day course.
The face-to-face courses take place on the campus of the University of St.Gallen. The exact course location will be announced after registration about one week before the course starts.
If you have any questions, please contact the Centre of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (HDZ-HSG) at Dufourstrasse 40a, 9000 St.Gallen via hdzhsg@unisg.ch or call +41 71 224 2630.