Writing excellence
Workshops
There is no perfect paper, even with AI. This workshop for postgraduate research students at CUED provides tried-and-tested advice on successful engineering writing and tips on using AI effectively in academic writing.
This workshop focuses on how to exploit journal articles to improve quality and word choice in Engineering writing.
Thursday 23 October 2025 - book here (booking opens on 6 October)
This workshop for postdocs at CUED provides tips and strategies on refining academic writing submissions for publication.
Thursday 22 January 2026 - book here (booking opens 1 December)
Wednesday 28 January 2026 - book here (booking opens 1 December)
Monday 9 February 2026 - book here (booking opens 1 December)
Individual writing supervisions
Individual online and in-person writing supervisions can be scheduled in throughout the year (during and out of term) and are tailored to your needs.
The individual writing supervisions provide participants with consistent support throughout a piece of written work to ensure accurate and highest quality submissions of reports, dissertations, papers and research proposals. The supervisions focus on structure, logical flow, the effective development of ideas, accuracy, critical analysis and editing techniques.
You can either book supervisions in advance on the Moodle schedule or at your convenience by emailing David Tual.
Booking a supervision
- Michaelmas term supervision bookings will open on Monday 6 October 2025
- Lent term supervision bookings will open on Monday 1 December 2025
- Easter term supervision bookings will open on Monday 17 March 2025
You can either book supervisions on the Moodle schedule or at your convenience by emailing David Tual.
Bookings can be made and cancelled up to 2 working days of the supervision time slot. If you are unable to attend your supervision and do not cancel it ahead of time, this hour will be deducted from your total supervision time (unless you notify clic-enquiries@eng.cam.ac.uk and your slot can be reallocated).
Once you have booked, please send your work by email in advance to your CLIC supervisor so they have time to read it through and prepare. Work sent in advance maximises your supervision time.
For urgent assistance
For urgent ‘just-in-time’ online writing assistance, on-demand support (see below) is available
On-demand support
For flexible, available-when-needed online or in-person support with areas such as checking or refining paper submissions, dissertation chapters or reports, presentation practice, CV refinement, review of research statements/applications, emails, letters, interview practice and preparation, etc, contact Nicola Cavaleri via Teams or email.
Writing support for Part IIA and Part IIB students
The CUED Centre for Languages and Inter-Communication is happy to assist undergraduates with report writing.
If you are interested in an individual review of your project reports and comments on language, structure and style, please email David Tual.
Research and Information skills
The Technology Libraries Team also provides online Research & Information skills support