Writing Advisory Service

The Writing Advisory Service provides personalised feedback on your written work throughout the year.

You'll be able to get comments from an experienced academic tutor on the organisation and clarity of your ideas, academic style and frequent language mistakes. The idea is that you learn from your mistakes and through implementing the suggestions that the tutors give you.

To be enrolled with the Writing Advisory Service students will need to place a request via the Brighton Student Skills Hub’s Personalised Support Request Form found on SharePoint (log-in required).

Important Note

Please complete the WAS submission form found in our My Studies area once you have enrolled and paste it into page 1 of your work prior to uploading it to Turnitin. The tutor reviewing your work can then see your Assessment Tasks and Learning Outcomes.

You can submit between 500 and 3,000 words (not including your reference list). We know that this is your work in progress and not your final submission.

Feedback may take up to 9 days. Please ensure you factor turnaround times into any deadlines you're working to.

WAS is not a proof-reading service. WAS will not provide feedback on content, nor does it assess Learning Outcomes.

WAS tutors will provide personalised feedback on the academic quality of your written work. When accessing your feedback, please read your overall summary first before referring to comments within your work.

Please note that students are allowed one submission per term.

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