This service is part of Library and Learning Services at CU London and is dedicated to guiding and assisting students with academic writing and English language at university. Whether you are finding it difficult at the beginning of your course or need to develop and improve to achieve the grades you want in years 2 and 3, the service is here to help.
Dagenham Campus Academic Writing Developer: Jolyon Pike: academicwritingservice.cul@coventry.ac.uk
Greenwich Campus Academic Writing Developer: Graham Gargiulo: awsgreenwich.cul@coventry.ac.uk
Normal Service Hours: 8.30am - 4.30pm Monday - Thursday and 8.30 - 3.30pm on Fridays
Students may have up to 3 full consultations, whether appointments or reviews of a draft, per assignment.
The academic writing developer will:
• listen to what you have to say about your writing and collaborate with you to provide guidance
• aid you in finding a way to understand your assignment brief better, including how to write in particular genres
• help you devise a plan to tackle your research
• assist you in organising your ideas and developing them
• analyse your writing to help you improve the way you structure and argue, and identify patterns of grammatical error
• offer strategies for revising and editing your assignment and developing your writing skills
do your assignment for you
proofread your assignment
Academic Writing Skills Workshops
The service conducts academic writing skills workshops throughout the year. Sessions open to all students are advertised on the Online Workshops page. Sessions are also run for particular course groups, as arranged with course tutors, including Saturday sessions for part-time courses. Please feel free to request a workshop on any academic writing topic you feel your group would find of interest.
Academic Writing Skills Diagnostic Exercise
If you wish to find out how good your academic writing skills are, and how you can improve them, you can do a diagnostic exercise online by clicking here.
The full exercise takes about an hour, but you can choose to do as much or as little of it as you wish. You can do the exercise as many times as you like and save a copy of each of your responses.
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