The Write Now Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is a partnership between London Metropolitan University, Liverpool Hope University and Aston University and is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
 
Write Now works with students, academics and educational and staff developers to improve students’ academic writing. We aim to enrich students’ learning experiences by enabling them to develop academic and disciplinary identities as empowered, confident writers.

Our approach has been to build on demonstrated local, national and international excellence in supporting student writing and learning development, with the objective of implementing and evaluating new models of student and staff support to assess their efficacy within the Write Now partner institutions and the UK Higher Education context more widely.

Key areas of our work include the development and evaluation of:

• university Writing Centres as part of a sustainable institutional approach to improving students' writing
• peer tutoring in academic writing programmes, including the development of training approaches and materials
• initiatives to embed writing and the teaching of writing within disciplinary curricula, including the use of assessment to support students' learning and writing development
• staff development programmes focused on writing for publication, enhancing research capacity and designing assessment to foster student learning
• learning technologies and multimedia resources that facilitate students' writing development and advance institutional blended learning initiatives.

Our work is informed by current theoretical and conceptual approaches in the fields of student learning, writing and assessment, and we investigate the effectiveness of our initiatives with students and staff through a comprehensive programme of research.

See also our Write Now leaflet.