Following a successful launch this year, The Writing Project will run again in Term 2. It is an English language support scheme, established to help students improve their written work and therefore their grades and job prospects.
The Writing Project http://www.writingproject.mmu.ac.uk/ - which starts in W/c 7th Jan 2013 - is a free 10-week course in how to write better English and is open to any MMU-enrolled student who would like to improve the way they write.
It covers academic and non-academic spheres and will focus mainly on style, punctuation, grammatical accuracy, organisation and how to paraphrase and summarise effectively.
Students may choose to enrol directly (i.e. self-refer) or they may be referred to the service as appropriate, for example, by academic tutors, student support officers or student experience tutors.
It will run multiple times on all campuses over the three terms of the academic year. There is no credit attached to the course, and no formal assessment. However, students will do exercises in writing during the weekly one-and-a-half-hour face-to-face sessions and for homework, and will be provided with plenty of feedback on their writing as the course progresses.
International students should be referred, as previously, to the existing ELSIS service, which is designed specifically for students whose first language is not English.
Please help your students and us by promoting this service to them, perhaps by posting this message as an announcement on your Moodle area? Feedback from the first course has been excellent. Students have benefitted massively from this much needed course.
For more information, or to book a place on one of the courses, please visit our web site www.writingproject.mmu.ac.uk or contact writingproject@mmu.ac.uk in the Department of Languages.
Anthony Picot
The Writing Project
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