Short courses in Writing Skills will be offered at the end of first semester and the beginning of second semester. The courses are designed to enhance the writing ability of students of all disciplines and cover many aspects of undergraduate writing, from matters of planning and organisation to details of expression. They operate through small workshop-style classes of fifteen to twenty students, each class lasting one and a half hours per week, with time for both discussion and the practice of writing techniques. Students are invited to enrol in any or all according to their needs and their timetables. A will open after the Easter break, and for Courses B and C at the end of July.
Students enrol by writing their name on the relevant enrolment list.
A Writing Skills Advisory Service operates throughout the academic year. Phone tutorials can be negotiated if students cannot attend during the relevant hours. We can also organise phone tutorials for evening and external students. Students should lodge a copy of an essay, or essays, preferably at least a week before their appointment. This should be a marked essay , as the service is meant to help you work through problems identified by your discipline tutors, not to help you draft an essay for assessment.