Book tutoring in academic writing

Book a session with a writing tutor by clicking the link at the bottom of this page and selecting a slot that suits you. You can choose between tutoring on campus at the Main Library or tutoring via Zoom. Slots are made available 2–3 weeks ahead. If there are no available slots, please email akademisktskrivcentrum@oru.se and ask to book tutoring in English. 

You may book two tutoring sessions per semester, but you can only make one appointment at a time. You must attend the first session before booking the next one. If you are writing with a partner, please book a joint session that you both attend. Please remember to cancel your booking if you are no longer able to attend.

Students with a documented learning difficulty or other disability may receive adapted writing support. You are welcome to inform the writing instructor of your disability when you book so that we can adapt the session to your needs. If you are not already in touch with Funka, the university’s unit for special educational support, we recommend contacting them. Students registered with Funka may book tutoring directly through them instead of using our booking system. Funka students may also book more than two tutoring sessions per semester. Tutoring is offered at the Main Library or via Zoom.

After you have booked your slot, the writing instructor will email a Zoom link or information on where the meeting in the Library will take place.

You may receive feedback on an almost finished text or on a draft. If you are working on a draft, we for example discuss the overall structure, writing effective paragraphs or incorporating sources in your text. If your text is almost done, we may instead focus on sentence structure, word choice, or meeting formal requirements.

Your text still needs to be your own work, so we read at the most half of texts shorter than four pages, or around two pages of longer texts. These pages do not have to be consecutive, and you may ask for feedback on different parts of a text. Select these pages and formulate your questions to the writing instructor carefully, because these will form the basis of the tutoring session.

The tutoring session is focused on helping you to help yourself. You will receive concrete suggestions for improving a part of your text as well as advice to continue working on your language and writing. We do not proofread texts.

During the session, we discuss any writing problems you experience and the parts of the text you had asked us to read to see what works well, what could be improved, and how you can continue working on your own.