Newcastle University

We have been asked to remind all our current students about the Writing Development Centre based in the Robinson Library.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/students/wdc/

The Writing Development Centre was created in 2007 to promote good writing practice across the disciplines and enable undergraduate and postgraduate students to develop their academic writing skills in a supportive environment. Key priorities are to support students in the transition from secondary to higher education and from undergraduate to postgraduate study.

The Centre offers tuition, guidance and advice on all aspects of academic writing, including:

• understanding assignment and examination questions
• planning, structuring and revising assignments
• using reading sources without plagiarism
• developing an argument
• writing critically
• using an appropriate authorial voice
• writing theses and dissertations
• using grammar and punctuation accurately and effectively
• learning from feedback on previous assignments

The Centre recognises that writing is a skill for life; therefore, help with other types of writing, such as employment-oriented and professional writing, is also available.