paper news :)

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Hey folks!

Just writing to let you know that my paper is going well. As you have probably heard before, the title of my paper is "Erasmus – or the never ending story of recognizing your courses". I think it is pretty interesting and affects especially students studying at the Department of Applied Translation Studies in Graz, because it would be important for us to go abroad in order to improve our foreign language skills. 

As I have been an exchange student  myself I know the difficulties that can emerge during an semester abroad. This is also the reason why I have not really had problems structuring my paper. Due to the fact that I know exactly how I am going to structure my paper, the personal experience I have on this field and that I found enough useful sources, in my opinion,  the job of writing the paper itself, it is to say the writing process itself does not appear to be that hard any more. 

As far as my progress is concerned I have already written half of the first version of my paper. I would not hand it in yet, of course, but I think that I will have finished my paper by Christmas. 

Elevator pitch...

After we did this little elevator pitch in class today, I thought maybe I could also advertise my paper by writing a blog post about it ;) 

Actually the topic of my paper affects all of you in a way. At least the ones that are planning to do an erasmus semester abroad . It’s about the never ending story of recognizing erasmus courses. I am sure that most of you have heard about that problem before. 

Every year more than 230 000 students take part in the Erasmus program. This education and training program enables students to study at a partner university in the European Union for a period of 3-12 months. Its goal is to promote lifelong learning and to encourage mobility within the EU. A great opportunity for students to improve their language skills as well as to gain valuable experience and to broaden their horizons. Participating in the Erasmus program, however, does not always bring the success and the results the students hoped for. Many people do not take into account that studying abroad also has its disadvantages, the greatest being the problem of recognizing absolved courses. Why do home university often not recognize courses taken at the host university and how can students prevent that from happening? The aim of this paper, that is based on personal experience is to investigate these question in order to illustrate the problems of studying abroad and to show what can be done to try to solve them. 

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