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Supporting students' academic writing

This space on the Teaching and Learning Portal is directed at supporting those who are interested and involved in the development of students’ writing, as well as students themselves. It provides a calendar of events and outcomes and a bank of resources, including an electronic reading list. All these features will be revised and built up over time, so please visit the page regularly to stay updated.

Resources for staff

• Academic Literacies resources
• Thinking Writing website: this essential website, based at Queen Mary, offers a huge range of ideas for embedding writing in teaching and student activity
• The UCL OSD website contains links to a number of resources for early-career researchers, including guidance on getting published

Resources for everyone

• The Graduate School runs a vast range of courses and workshops to help research students improve their writing and communication skills. On their website, search under section D2 of the Researcher Development Framework
• Royal Literary Fund Fellows offer guidance for all UCL students
• UCLU runs a Writing and Language Support (WALS) service for international students who want help with their written English
• UCLU Writers’ Society
• SELCS Writing Lab writing resources: a helpful collection of resources for staff and students
• SSEES Guidelines for writing essays: these guidelines will help students as they plan and write assessed essays
• Writing with blogs and Twitter for academic purposes: UCL Professors Anthony Finkelstein and Jon Butterworth discuss their use of social media
• The PPD website offers a range of resources to help students with their writing as part of their personal and professional development
• How to improve your academic writing: this skills-orientated website from the University of Essex also includes helpful guidance on plagiarism and how to avoid it
• UCL’s Centre for Languages and International Education offers a range of courses to help students improve their reading and writing. Please note that students will be charged for some of these courses
• The BioNews writing scheme teaches science students how to write news stories, giving them research skills as well as an appreciation of the contrasting values of and pressures faced by journalists and scientists
• The OWL resources for academic writing range from rhetorical approaches to a guide on how to write with clarity

Reading list

We have compiled a short electronic reading list for staff and students, linked to UCL Library.

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