Learning To Write On Campus

With reference to our recent assignment on distance education it is interesting to note how conventional means of improving writing skills remain dominant.

The ‘Shannon Consortium Regional Writing Centre (RWC)’ was set up in 2007 under the auspices of the ‘Centre for Teaching and Learning’, directed by Professor Sarah Moore, the associate Vice-President of the University of Limerick, and was initially funded by the Higher Education Authority’s (HEAs) Strategic Initiative Fund.

 The RWC offers group and one-to-one peer (face to face) tutoring to students of all disciplines from humanities to engineering. It takes a fun approach to the topic and this has paid dividends in terms of improving once problematic areas like grammar, style, sentence construction, vocabulary, essay, dissertation and even Ph.D work. The RWC believes that anybody can improve their writing skills by examining the strategies used to achieve  writing goals.