We offer workshops on different aspects of academic writing development aimed to support you with writing your thesis on areas such as how you approach the thesis, writing the literature review, writing the methodology chapter/section, and editing and drafting.

See the current schedule.

 

We also run weekend on campus thesis boot camps once per year which are advertised via email and in the Researcher Newsletter plus virtual writing mornings/afternoons and days to focus on your writing with other researchers.

 

Weekly ‘Get Stuff Done’ virtual writing sessions

Every Wednesday morning during term time, 10:00­–12:00pm, Microsoft Teams 

Get Stuff Done is a weekly two-hour online session providing a friendly and constructive environment in which to meet like-minded peers, discuss writing or motivational challenges, and work in a focused way without distractions.

Find out more about these weekly virtual sessions.

 

1-1 Tutorials

We can provide individual advice on areas of academic writing development such as: chapter and sentence structure; critical analysis; the structure and writing of arguments, methodologies; methods and literature reviews and referencing; and anything else you’d like to discuss.

1-1 tutorials will be one hour long and will usually take place on Microsoft Teams. Each researcher may request up to four 1-1 tutorials per term.

If you’d like to book a tutorial, please email Vicky Penn, our Researcher Development Officer, at Vicky.Penn@rhul.ac.uk. Please include your name, department, (working) thesis title, and the areas or issues you’d like to talk through. Vicky will then discuss your aims with you over email, set up a meeting, and ask you to send her a portion of your writing so that she can provide specific, detailed guidance and advice on areas to improve. Please send this in a Word document. An annotated copy of your work will be sent back to you before the tutorial, and Vicky will go through this with you, covering any recurring themes or issues.

This process is designed to help you understand how to improve your writing going forward, so the emphasis will be on building and developing academic writing skills rather than on proofreading.

 

RHUL Proofreading Scheme

The Royal Holloway Proofreading Scheme is only open to postgraduates who would like to have the final draft of an assessed project/dissertation/thesis checked for minor slips and errors. The scheme's proofreaders do not work for Royal Holloway but are freelance professionals with experience of checking through academic work for error. Any work that these proofreaders do for you is by private arrangement and paid for by you. Further information here.