A ONE-TO-ONE HELP-WITH-WRITING SERVICE FOR STUDENTS IN
  HIGHER EDUCATION

Could you use some help with writing? Are you struggling with an essay, report, dissertation or thesis? Have you actually been taught how to write an essay or report, or how to produce a dissertation or thesis? Or have you woken up to the horrible truth that you are being tested on what you haven't actually been taught? 

A strand of my new justwrite service offers help with writing - you might call it 'coaching in writing' - specially designed for undergraduates, taught postgraduates and research students who realise that there's something missing from their education. 

As you'll see from my Introduction, I used to be a university lecturer. I taught social policy at the London School of Economics for 25 years, and for the past ten years I have specialized in giving students one-to-one help with various kinds of writing. So I do have many years of experience in helping people to sort their ideas out, overcome blocks to writing, and produce the document they are tasked to produce, QUICKLY!

And I write books. I have written seven 'Student-Friendly Guides', including the best-selling Write Great Essays! and Excellent Dissertations!, published by Open University Press. You can get some idea of my own writing skill from taking a look at them. For more information please go to www.student-friendly-guides.com. I do my own editing too. My books are published in the form that I write them: they have not been knocked into shape by a publisher's copy-editor.

I can't write your essay, report, dissertation or thesis for you. You have to provide the raw material - the content, the subject matter. I don't do subject matter: I'm not offering you my subject knowledge of the social sciences. What I can and do offer you is the 'writing know-how', the skill of turning thinking into writing, that helps you turn your raw material into a finished document. In the process, you acquire that skill for yourself. You'll be amazed at the boost that having that skill gives to your confidence!

In a nutshell, I provide the tutoring and support for writing that your teachers ought to give you but are too busy and overstretched to supply. I can't do it for free, of course, but my rates are economical and experience shows it is possible to cover a great deal of ground in a short space of time.

  HOW THE SERVICE WORKS

When you get in touch with me, I'll ask you for the following information:

1. Your name and contact details (email and phone)
2. The title of the degree you're studying for, and which year you're in. 
        (I don't need to know which university or college you're at.)
3. The title of the course that you want help with
4. The title of the essay or whatever that you're grappling with. (If you
        haven't got a title, tell me the subject.)

If we agree to go ahead together, I'll ask you to email some more things to me.

1. Send me one or two samples of your writing, preferably with marks
        and markers' comments attached. The marks etc. should give me
        some idea of the standard that is expected of you.
2. If the title of the essay doesn't make it clear to you what you are
        expected to write, have a go at translating it into language that does
        make it clear what you have to write, and send your translation to
        me too. (Students often find themselves having to start by
        deciphering a convoluted essay topic.)
3. If you're working towards a dissertation or thesis it would be helpful to
        see anything you've written so far about the objective of your work,
        such as a research question. 

From this point on, what I'll help you to do is to clarify and organize your thoughts, and create a draft outline structure (e.g. an essay plan) for the piece of writing you're going to produce. If you have to carry out a literature review I'll help you to make that task manageable. And I can help you to overcome any writing block you may encounter.

If you wish, I will proof-read and check the grammar and punctuation of the pre-final draft, and raise queries where I think the meaning may not be clear. This is a service that students whose first language is not English find particularly valuable.

GET IN TOUCH!

If you've read this web page and my Introduction, you now know something of who I am and how I work. If you would like more information on anything, including fees (reasonable!), please send me an email: CLICK HERE.

As I said earlier, I'll be happy to discuss your needs. If you include your phone number (landline preferred if possible, please) in your email, I'll be happy to give you a call and we can talk over the phone. There's no charge for an exploratory discussion, of course. I look forward to hearing from you.

  GUARANTEE OF CONFIDENTIALITY

I appreciate the need for complete confidentiality in the work I do for you. I treat everything that passes between me and my clients in complete confidence. I do not and will not disclose any information about clients, or any information that would enable a client to be identified.

Peter Levin

'Helping you get from first thoughts to polished paragraphs'

To contact me at justwrite.biz, CLICK HERE