Writing
Planning, writing and editing your work
- Assignment planner: Use this tool to create a personalised schedule for each of your written assignments.
- How to improve your work before submitting: tips, tools and areas to focus on to help you improve your work before you hand it in.
- How to plan and structure your writing: Analyse your assignment title, organise your thoughts and structure your paragraphs.
- How to put your reading into your writing: Summarise your research, identify themes in your reading and bring it all together in a structured paragraph.
- Literature reviews workbook: An introduction to the process of writing a literature review that includes video guidance with perspectives from each faculty.
- Reflective writing: How reflective writing can help you with your learning, and methods to achieve this.
- Report writing: Understand the techniques of report writing, an important academic and workplace skill.
- Technical report writing guide: Understand some of the conventions of technical report writing, such as formatting and the use of technical data and language.
- Writing in an academic style: common features of academic writing style including being cautious, being formal and being concise and precise
- Video essays guide: Provides guidance for those who would like to produce a video essay as part of their assignments.
Study skills workshops
From making notes to structuring your writing, we offer a number of study skills events to students which take place across all UWE Bristol campuses.
Study skills workshopsStudiosity
Writing Feedback
With the Writing Feedback service offered through Studiosity, you can upload a draft essay, written assignment or a CV of up to 8,000 words and get it back the same day with tips and notes on how to make it better.
This is available 24/7, 365 days a year.
Connect Live
With Connect Live you can ask a question and connect to a real person anytime, 24/7, 365 days a year.
Studiosity specialists will help you to work through your question helping you to solve the problem for yourself. You can chat for up to 20 minutes, and use tools such as drawing on a whiteboard and sharing files.
Reading lists to help you develop your writing
We have curated reading lists of library books and external resources to help you to develop your writing skills.
- Plan and structure your writing: This resource list complements the 'How to plan and structure your writing' library workshop.
- Put your reading into your writing: This resource list complements the 'How to put your reading into your writing' library workshop.
- Reflective writing: Suggested further reading and videos to help you with your reflective writing assignments.
- Report writing: Suggested further reading to help when you are writing reports. This resource list complements the report writing workbook.
Formatting your work
Advice on formatting your work, such as margin size, font size, line spacing, and quoting your sources of information.
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English language
Find out about English language and grammar support for students at UWE Bristol.
Faculty study support
Faculty-specific online study support and one-to-one help tailored for your subject.
Library study skills support
There are a number of workshops and other study support available from the library to help you develop your study skills.
Academic information
Advice on academic-related issues and what to do if something happens which affects your studies.
Assistive software
Use Mindview software to organise, collate and structure ideas and research in a visual way. Available to all on the UWE Bristol network.