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.