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I am filling in a form in German and there is a box in it: "Studienziel an der Partneruniversität". I wanted to write down this:

Masterarbeit zu schreiben, dabei die Bibliothek zu nutzen und dortige Experten zu konsultieren. Außerdem mein Deutsch wesentlich zu verbessern, und Vorlesungen und Seminare zu besuchen.

But I do not know, whether it is correct to use all these zu before infinitives. Could anybody help? I have searched through quite a few threads here and elsewhere, but none seems to meet my problem, which is using infinitive alone, without any other sentence containing conjugated verb.

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    I would say: "Schreiben der Masterarbeit, Nutzung der Bibliothek, Diskussion mit Experten, Verbesserung der Sprachkenntnisse in Deutsch, Besuch von Vorlesung und Seminaren"
    – Iris
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 14:51
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    Suppose you start a sentence with "Mein Studienziel an der Partneruniversität ist es, meine Masterarbeit zu schreiben, ...", then it's correct. If you just list them and do not really write a full sentence, you can do it simpler as suggested by @Iris.
    – Em1
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 15:36
  • Try to write whole sentences instead of fragments, then you will not have the trouble to decide which is wrong or right.
    – Hubert Schölnast
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 16:43
  • I'm going to combine our three comments in an answer, ok? @Hubert Schölnast
    – Iris
    Commented Oct 29, 2015 at 14:10
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    @Iris corrected in the question.
    – Jan
    Commented Oct 29, 2015 at 15:02

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As @Em1 wrote, suppose you start a sentence with

Mein Studienziel an der Partneruniversität ist es, meine Masterarbeit zu schreiben, …

then it’s correct. However, it sounds strange for native speakers.

So it’s better to write whole sentences instead of fragments (comment by @Hubert Schölnast). If you want to keep it short you can reformulate it to:

Schreiben der Masterarbeit, Nutzung der Bibliothek, Diskussion mit Experten, Verbesserung der Sprachkenntnisse in Deutsch, Besuch von Vorlesungen und Seminaren

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