Academic Skills Unit

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ASK has been a great help; I have seen a significant improvement in my grades. It has helped me to improve my style of writing and to overcome mistakes being made on a regular basis, and has generally improved my work overall.

I am usually tardy with handing in assignments. When I mentioned this to the ASK supervisor, I felt like he actually listened and understood, and proposed a solution which he felt was going to be manageable and helpful, and it definitely helped me to stay on top of things.

Just having someone who hadn't already heard my dissertation ideas to whom I could spout all the stuff about it was really useful, as it allowed me to get a load of the info that'd been stuck in my head out, and onto a mind-map. They're very easy people to talk to, which is great.

It has helped me to understand ways of research that are relevant to the point I am making. It has helped me to realise how to develop arguments further and not just pool lots of pieces of information without using them effectively.

I had no idea that the work I need to do is totally different to what I was expecting. There were expectations on me and I had no idea what to do. I saw an ASK tutor and after just three sessions I had improved significantly.

The staff at ASK helped me from a 48% to a 70%. They worked hard to help me. I’m really grateful and would never have coped without help and support from the staff at ASK.

Helped improve my confidence massively. The one-to-one sessions are brilliant as they are personal to my own strengths and weaknesses. The workshops are also very helpful and taught at an appropriate level.

I found the one-to-one sessions helped enormously with my essay writing style. There was no hurry and I could ask questions in my own time.

Excellent. They were really helpful and have helped me a lot to improve my grades. ASK made me feel as if they cared about helping me achieve the best possible grade.

I had considered leaving University due to personal troubles which led to my poor grades. Having the one to one sessions at ASK, however, gave me the confidence I needed to stick to my degree and helped me improve my grades. The workshops were also extremely helpful.

I hadn't planned a longer essay for several years and was really out of practice. ASK helped me to understand how to use planning to inform reading and keep to task.

I was able to learn how to construct effective paragraphs, and to reduce the breadth of content while increasing the depth of structure of assignments. My mark improved by 5% on structure on the next assignment and my later marks by 10% to 30% more.