More about the Potchefstroom Writing Centre

• Facilitated peer-to-peer group consultations, ensuring comfortable spaces where students will be able to learn from one another.
• Hand-outs to support students with their academic writing skills.
• Special projects with faculties, which embed the Potchefstroom Campus Writing Centre as an academic writing intervention, especially for modules with writing assignments. The Writing Centre has standing projects with the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, and Faculty of Humanities. To incorporate the Writing Centre in your course please contact Mr Zander Janse van Rensburg.
• Postgraduate writing workshops. These workshops provide guidance in the writing of dissertations and theses. To organize a workshop please contact Mr Zander Janse van Rensburg.

Services include

• clarification – guiding students to understand assignment instructions;
• planning and organisation – guiding students in planning out the writing task and writing process, dividing the writing task into manageable chunks, ordering ideas, and building arguments;
• revision – guiding students to reconsider main arguments and ideas where and if necessary and as appropriate; and
• source integration – guiding students on how to properly use in-text referencing, create reference lists and bibliographies, using the appropriate referencing styles, and special attention to academic integrity.

Services do not include

• proofreading and editing – consultants do not correct any mistakes or edit students’ writing;
• making any recommendations with regard to subject content of students’ writing;
• translating texts, however we facilitate the process alongside students;
• Reading multiple texts or particularly long texts in one consultation (we suggest scheduling follow-up consultations in these situations); or
• using the consultation as a teaching opportunity.

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The Potchefstroom Campus Writing Centre is located at Building E8 Room G44.