Guide
Book an appointment with a Royal Literary Fellow and get help with your academic writing
Book a 50-minute, one-to-one appointment with an academic writing tutor
Updated on 16 September 2025
Appointments are now open for Academic Year 2025-26
During Semesters 1 and 2, the Academic Skills Centre has Royal Literary Fund Fellows working with us as writing tutors to help you to strengthen your academic writing through our free, confidential appointment service.
Our tutors work with the University through the UK-wide RLF Fellowship programme.
A Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow is a professional, published author whose role as a writing tutor is to help any student or staff member, at any level, to strengthen their writing.
The writing tutors will help you to:
- develop your academic writing technique and style to better write essays, reports, theses, dissertations, book chapters, etc.
- focus your reading for essay, dissertation, paper or thesis writing
- express your ideas more clearly
- improve your grammar and punctuation
- discover reading to improve your writing and editing skills
They will not:
- offer discipline-specific guidance
- comment on the marking scheme used in your discipline
- undertake English language tuition if English is not your first language
- edit or proofread your assignments
This year, we are fortunate to have Chris Arthur working with us as an academic writing tutor on Mondays and Wednesdays. Read Chris Arthur's full bio.
Living outside of the UK
Due to the charitable status of the Royal Literary Fund, its Academic Writing Fellows are only permitted to work with University of Dundee students who are currently living in the UK. If you currently live outside the UK, please make an academic skills appointment and one of our tutors will be happy to support you with your writing.
Book a writing tutor appointment
Appointments are 50 minutes, available on City Campus during Semesters 1 and 2.
- Contact Chris directly at [email protected]. You must use your University of Dundee account for this.
- Provide details of areas of your writing you would like advice with. Look at any previous feedback you’ve received from your subject tutors to help you with this.
- The tutor will contact you to arrange a suitable time for your appointment.
- The writing tutor will include a link to the RLF Calendar booking system for you to select an online or on-campus option and a day and time for your appointment.
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