An Online Writing Consultation: English will provide you with advice and corrections on a text while you are writing it.

You can submit any text you would like help with for an individual online consultation session. The consultant will answer your questions and address any aspects of your text that you want assistance with, including:

• grammar, spelling, and punctuation;
• apt expressions (usage, vocabulary, collocations);
• lucid style;
• logical linking of sentences;
• overall structure of paragraphs and sections;
• format conventions;
• citation styles.

This offer is intended for anyone who is writing in English, regardless of whether English is their first or second language. All students, including PhD candidates, at the University of Basel are welcome to participate, and you can submit any genre of text, including:

• seminar papers and presentations;
• theses and dissertations;
• curricula vitae and applications;
• formal letters;
• reports (Protokolle) and regulations;
• research presentations and slides;
• research papers and books;
• research proposals and calls for papers.

The writing consultant is qualified to offer competent advice on a wide range of genres from fields and disciplines spanning the university.

It is best to come to the consultation with specific questions about individual passages of your text. Questions specific to a discipline cannot be answered.

This offer is exclusively for students and PhD candidates at the University of Basel. The sixty-minute individual sessions take place online.

Costs: CHF 35.00 per 60 minutes.