Write Site

In pursuit of epistemological access, the Write Site aims to establish collaborative relationships with content lecturers across faculties to meet students’ subject-specific writing needs. Discussions with content specialists inform the development of tailor-made online and face-to-face workshop materials that prepare students to complete specific assignments due in the disciplines. The online workshops enable the writing centre to reach large cohorts of students and work around capacity and venue limitations. Furthermore, students are able to work through the online materials at their own pace. All workshop materials include authentic, discipline-specific texts that address academic writing aspects such as the structure of specific text types, thesis statement formulation, development of academic arguments, paragraph formulation, synthesis, paraphrasing and summarising, and referencing.