Book an appointment with a Royal Literary Fellow and get help with your academic writing

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

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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.

• 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.

Resources

• RLF online resources