Registration for spring term 2025

There is no registration for AW1&2. Instead, at the time of their DACR A1 result, eligible students will automatically be given access to the following term's course. If you'd prefer to take AW1&2 in a later term (if there's still time before your ESA), you'll be able to let us know via our course withdrawal form.

The upcoming course officially starts on Monday 27 January 2025.

This is a fast-track course for first-year doctoral students scoring level 3 on DACR A1. It is a condensed version of our Academic Writing 1 and Academic Writing 2 courses. It develops and improves the range and accuracy of the students’ writing by focusing on the main features of STEMM writing at doctoral level (including text organisation, cohesion, sentence structure, grammatical accuracy and academic vocabulary). It is designed primarily to help students with the writing of their ESA, but will also be relevant for aspects of writing research papers and the thesis. Writing tasks focus on structuring introductions, writing definitions, describing and evaluating procedures, and reporting and commenting on research findings.

This is an online self-study course which runs over a recommended 8-week period. To make the most of this course, we recommend you allocate an average of 2 hours per week to work on the activities, assignments and other recommended resources. There are no scheduled weekly live classes; instead, you will have a CfAE coach to guide you and answer any questions you might have. You will also receive 1:1 feedback on each of the course writing assignments.

Please note that this course has been carefully designed to meet your needs and improve your academic writing during the first 12 months of your doctoral programme. You will not be able to take it after the DACR A2/ESA.

Course eligibility

Those eligible for Academic Writing 1&2 (i.e. 1st-year doctoral students scoring level 3 on DACR A1) will receive the recommendation for this course with their DACR A1 result. 

CfAE term dates

Autumn term

21/10/24 - 13/12/24

Spring term

27/01/25 - 21/03/25

Summer term

06/05/25 - 27/06/25

Vacation term

07/07/25 - 29/08/25