This summer, the Bridge are offering one-to-one, 30 minute sessions with a tutor, providing general guidance as well as specific approaches for developing your academic writing. Come along to learn how to study effectively and optimise your grades.

There’s no need to book, just turn up between the following times to see a tutor.

• Tuesdays 2pm – 4pm The Bridge, above Adsetts Library café
• Fridays 11.30am – 1.30pm, Collegiate Library, room 0.01

the Disabled Student Support service is a different service to this one.  If you normally access the Disabled Student Support service, please contact your tutor as normal.

They will help you devise strategies to check your own work but they will not proofread assignments.

More about the sessions

The service is learner-led; you decide on the topic for sessions.  Examples of topics covered are:

• understanding assessment criteria and discussing initial ideas for work
• what it means to think and write critically or reflectively
• planning and delivering presentations and effective group working
• how to carry out a literature review and write a dissertation

The aim of the sessions is to focus on developing learning, so you might want to bring:

• the assessment criteria for an assignment you’re thinking about starting, to discuss ideas or develop a rough planning outline
• what you’ve written (if you’ve made a start) to discuss your structure and whether you’re staying on-topic
• a marked assignment so that we can discuss the feedback you’ve received and what you might do differently next time
• a timetable of submission dates to talk about time management or examples of materials you are revising for exams.