Learning for university is a new experience for most students. Whether you are an undergraduate or a postgraduate, you will meet new challenges and learn to develop skills for your university study. The Academic Skills Team from the Learning Centre offers to work with you to help you to become a successful student.
Our writing programmes offer
- one-to-one tuition (Writing by Appointment, Just Write and Write Right Programmes)
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tutorials focused on your learning and writing needs
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opportunities to work on your draft assignments as well as on marked work to identify weaknesses
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subject-specific writing workshops arranged with Schools to address the writing tasks within modules
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postgraduate writing support
Each programme, in its own distinctive way, helps you to perform to your full potential by helping you to help yourself.
Writing by Appointment
How it works
- Book online
- Individual tutorial with a writing tutor
- Appointments (55 minutes) to fit in with your timetable and other responsibilities
- Up to five appointments per semester
- Free!
Just Write and Write Right Programmes
Both these programmes are provided by our Royal Literary Fund Fellows. For more than four years the Royal Literary Fund has invited the University to host two Writing Fellows to work with students on developing their writing style in confidential tutorials. Currently, our Writing Fellows are Gordon Meade and Jonathan Falla, both acclaimed writers in their own genres.
How it works
- Just Write is primarily for postgraduates and undergraduates who have to write dissertations or theses.
- Write Right is primarily for undergraduates who have to present written assignments
- Apply by email ( or )
- Apply online (Just Write / Write Right)
- Available three days per week
- Individual writing tutorial with one of the Writing Fellows (45-50 minutes)
- Free!
Contact details and further information about the writing programmes are given below:
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Writing Road Shows
How it works
At key points in the academic year, our Academic Skills Team will go ‘on the road’ across the campus and position the Writing Road Show in open spaces in different buildings so that students can discuss approaches to their assignments and to writing with one of our professional staff. This is not intended as an ‘instant fix’, but it will give students the chance to make appointments for further work with one of our writing tutors.
Generic Skills Writing Workshops
How it works
These writing workshops are offered to postgraduate students under the University’s Generic Skills Programme for Research postgraduates at PhD level by the Academic Skills Advisor as academic writing specialist. The aim is to help with preparation for writing in the disciplines, especially for thesis monitoring committee reports, literature reviews, dissertations and theses for research students. Feedback to students helps to avoid errors in later drafts and builds students’ confidence in their ability to write in their own academic ‘voice’.
Write Attributes
How it works
Write Attributes is a site that offers guidance on writing well in academia. It covers key aspects of academic ethics, presentation of work and the language dimensions of citation and referencing to avoid plagiarism. It links to the University’s skills website Advance@Dundee so that this an instant reference resource for students as they develop their own assignments. Write Attributes is offered as a module within My Dundee with the aim of enabling staff to integrate the content into subject modules.
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