Otto Kruse

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Otto Kruse (* 1948 in Hallein ) is a psychologist and writing researcher. He has contributed to establishing academic writing as a research field and to making writing skills didactically accessible. He developed teaching methods for scientific writing in various contexts and training levels and examined writing cultures in various disciplines and countries.

biography

After studying psychology in Marburg, Kruse did his doctorate and habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin on topics related to emotional psychology. He was assistant for clinical psychology at the Technical University of Berlin (1978-1983), employee of the central institution for student counseling and psychological counseling at the Free University of Berlin (1983-1993), professor for psychology of social work at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt (1993-2003) and Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (2003–2015), where he headed the Center for Academic Writing. He became known with the book No fear of the empty sheet (2003), which combines the process understanding of writing, as it was developed in the USA, with the German traditions of seminaristic learning and scientific work. He is currently developing an electronic learning environment to support students writing their Bachelor or Master theses.

Research priorities

  • History of seminar writing
  • Writing skills
  • Writing, critical thinking, and inquiry-based learning
  • Digital support of writing
  • Intercultural writing research

Otto Kruse is co-founder of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing EATAW and was a board member from 1999 to 2009. In 2004 he and others founded the Swiss Forum for Scientific Writing and was its first president. He participated in the COST campaign IS073 "European Research Network for Learning to Write Effectively" and headed the working group XY. He is currently working in the COST Action IS1401 "European Literacy Network".

Fonts

  • Don't be afraid of the blank sheet. Without writer's block through studies . Campus, 1993/2007, ISBN 3-593-36659-2 .
  • Creativity as a resource for change and growth . DGVT Verlag, 1996.
  • Art and technique of storytelling . Two thousand and one, 2001, ISBN 3-86150-392-1 .
  • Key competency in writing: concepts, methods, projects for writing advice and writing didactics at the university (with Eva-Maria Jakobs and Gabriela Ruhmann) . Luchterhand, 1999 ISBN 3-937026-07-X .
  • The origins of writing in the disciplines: Traditions of seminar writing and the Humboldtian Ideal of the research university . In: Written Communication, 23 (3), 2007, pp. 331–362.
  • Critical thinking under the sign of Bologna: rhetoric and reality. In: Ulrike Eberhardt (ed.): New impulses in university didactics : Linguistics and literary studies (pp. 45–82). Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010.
  • Read and write. Correct handling of texts during studies . UVK, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-3355-6 .
  • Critical thinking as the main objective of teaching: ways out of the school misery . In: Georg Krücken (Ed.): Innovation and creativity at universities . Institute for University Research, Wittenberg 2011, pp. 77–86. online .
  • Writing skills during studies: components, models, measurements (with M. Chitez) . In: Ulrike Preusser, Nadja Sennewald (ed.): Literary competence development at the university . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012.
  • with M. Chitez: Writing cultures and genres across Europe In: Montserrat Castelló, Christiane Donahue (eds.): University Writing: Selves and Texts in Academic Societies (= Studies in Writing, Volume 24). Emerald, Bradford 2012, pp. 33-51.
  • The seminar: An interim assessment after 200 years . In: Brigitte Kossek, Charlotte Zwiauer (Hrsg.): University in the times of Bologna on the theory and practice of teaching and learning cultures . Vienna University Press, Vienna 2012, pp. 89–110.
  • Learning to Write Effectively. Current Trends in European Research (with Mark Torrance and others) . Emerald, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78052-928-8 .
  • Perspectives on academic writing in European higher education: Genres, practices, and competences . In: Revista de Docencia Universitaria . REDU. Número monográfico dedicado a Academic Writing. Vol. 11 (1), 2013, pp. 37-58. online .

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personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallein