Tutorials

Academic Writing and Study Skills Tutorials are available to all students. They are a confidential one-to-one or small group appointment with a member of the Library Team lasting up to 30 minutes. They are available in person on campus, via Teams and email.

In order to ensure that the students who need them most have access to a tutorial, we will support you to engage with our online services and drop-ins before we make you a tutorial appointment.

Requesting a tutorial

• Tutorials are booked for you by our Learning and Skills Development Team. To request skills support email: learninghub@tees.ac.uk
• Our Team will help you to define what support you need and will initially guide you through our online materials and encourage you to engage with our Study Skill Drop-ins
• If after trying out this support for yourself, you would like further support you can email us again at learninghub@tees.ac.uk and we will make a tutorial appointment for you
• We will refer you for up to three appointments per semester (1 appointment per assignment)
• Appointments could be with a range of library staff so be aware that you may not see the same adviser at each one-to-one
• Depending on demand there may be a waiting list for one-to-one appointments

What can a tutorial help you with?

We can help you to develop your own independent study skills in many aspects of academic writing. This could be helping you to develop your own skills to:

- Understand your tutor’s feedback on a marked assignment and act upon that feedback for future assignments
- Understand your School’s Assessment Criteria for an assignment
- Improve your time management and plan for your assignment submission dates
- Structure your assignment
- Develop your critical thinking and writing
- Develop your independent proof-reading skills and the skills for you assess that your work is of a quality appropriate  for submission

You can bring your assignment plan or a piece of work with you as an example and we will use it to inform our advice on how to develop the independent skills that will improve your confidence and performance.

What tutorials are not able to help with and why

• We cannot read your work ahead of a tutorial, however, you can bring a piece of work with you to your appointment for us to refer to in the session
• As your work needs to be entirely your own, we will not check draft assignments for you in order to approve their quality before submission but we will support you to develop these skills for yourself
• In order to protect your academic integrity we cannot proof-read your work for you i.e. check the content, structure, spelling or grammar, but we will help you to develop the valuable skills to successfully proof read your own work