Writing Advisory Service
The Writing Advisory Service can provide personalised feedback on your written work throughout the year.
You can submit a piece of work to the Hub's experienced academic tutors, who will comment on the organisation and clarity of your ideas, academic style and frequent language mistakes. You can then improve your own writing by implementing their suggestions.
Find out more about the Writing Advisory Service.
I used the Writing Advisory Service in the second semester and I was really pleased. The tutor reviewed two of my reports, not just grammatically correcting them, but also giving me really good advice on how to improve structure and ways of expression.
Laura Clemente, Environmental Assessment and Management MSc
Academic skills support
The Hub's dedicated tutors can also support the development of your wider academic skills. This might be delivered through small group seminars, or you can book one-to-one sessions, to get personalised support.
Academic skills support the Hub can offer students:
- One-to-one tutorials to support with assignments
Academic skills support the Hub can offer via course leaders:
- Workshops to develop skills for academic writing and presentations
- Small group seminars on specific areas, such as developing paragraphs, cohesion and coherence, incorporating sources or academic style and developing criticality
- Writing groups to facilitate peer review and develop skills collaboratively
Foundation and level 4 students
We know that producing a piece of academic writing at university level can be a daunting prospect, if you have not done so before or if you are re-entering education after a break.
The Hub tutors offer foundation and level 4 students online, one-to-one tutorials, at key points in the academic year, to advise or help with academic writing and speaking skills. During your foundation or level 4 programme of study, look out for notifications in your inbox to book these sessions or to attend academic writing events.
You can also get in touch with the dedicated study skills tutor in your school, to discuss how the Hub can support you further.
School specific academic skills tutors
If you would like advice on the clarity, structure or style of your academic writing, then you can get in touch with the academic skills tutor linked to your school. To find out more about how they can support you, just send them an email.
School of Applied Sciences
Nancy Carter n.carter@brighton.ac.uk
School of Art and Media
Kim Pedersen k.e.pedersen@brighton.ac.uk
School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering
Gary Hicks g.hicks@brighton.ac.uk
Develop your style and structure
This year, University of Brighton students can also benefit from additional writing support from two Royal Literary Fund Fellows – Ed Miller and Beth Harris, both published writers with extensive teaching experience.
The fellows can help students at all levels of study, undergraduate and postgraduate, to improve and even enjoy your writing. They are best placed to help if you are largely confident with the level of academic writing that you are producing, but you want additional guidance on how to improve the style and structure of your work.
The fellows can work with you one-to-one, using their expertise in written language and communication, to help you develop your academic writing skills.
The sessions, conducted online, focus on your specific writing needs. Topics you might discuss include:
- understanding the title
- essay planning
- structuring your argument
- writing clearly
- critical thinking
- rewriting and editing.
Find out more about tutorials with Royal Literary Fund Fellows.