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In our monthly newsletter, we’ll keep you up to date on upcoming events relating to academic writing, self-care, study skills and part-time work, as well as providing tips and short exercises to make your day-to-day student life easier.

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Example: Writing tip 

Have you ever written about a topic for ten minutes at a time? Just like that, without paying attention to language and grammar, without thinking about or evaluating what you've written? Five minutes without putting down the pen and thinking?

This method is called "freewriting" and helps you to record all your thoughts independently of a critical voice in your own head: brainstorming on your own - everything that comes into your head is correct. The starting point can be a question such as "What topic should I write my thesis on?"

In our "Journaling" or "Idea forge" workshops, we show you how you can use this technique for your writing project.