Ask for expert opinion
Situation
You need an expert opinion, e.g. for applying for a scholarship or an internship, and therefore go to your lecturer's office hours.
Hintergrundinformation
In order to obtain a well-founded and meaningful expert opinion, you should, if possible, contact lecturers who know you well as a student – e.g. through presentations, assignments, examinations or auxiliary work. At the very least, you should have already attended a course with the relevant lecturer and performed some kind of work there, so that the lecturer can draw up an expert opinion on your professional quality or personal suitability.
Tip
In general, meaningful documents on your previous achievements and academic activities are required for the preparation of an expert opinion. Submit to the lecturer a compilation of your previous academic achievements with details of the course title, semester, grade, type of achievement and, if applicable, titles of term papers and/or presentations held, as well as a curriculum vitae and letter of motivation. If, for example, the scholarship-awarding institution has forms for the evaluations and/or guidelines for preparing the evaluation, please also enclose these. In addition, you should also indicate for which institution/project the review should be issued and in which language it should be written. Since well-founded reviews take time, it is important that you ask the lecturer early enough, at least four weeks before the submission deadline, whether he/she would be willing to write a review for you. If you ask at too short notice, you risk a refusal from the lecturer because he/she has many other time-bound commitments.