Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, our Royal Literary Fund fellow returns to Aberystwyth from 7th October.
Samanatha offers a free, confidential service to help improve students’ writing skills.
You can help advertise the service to your students – link to the RLF Learning Object Repository item in Blackboard course sites
- English item: Improve your academic writing
- Bilingual item: Cyfle i wella’ch ysgrifennu academaidd / Improve your academic writing
- Welsh item: Cyfle i wella’ch ysgrifennu academaidd
And don’t forget that staff are also welcome to book an appointment with Samanatha.
The information in the Learning Object is:
Improve your academic writing this year with RLF Fellow Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. To make an appointment please email for a booking link: samantha.wynne-rhydderch@rlfeducation.org.uk
Students at Aberystwyth University at any level of study (from 1st year to postgraduate) – and staff – are welcome to book a session.
The Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellows are professional, published authors whose role is to help you strengthen your writing. In one-to-one sessions, Samantha can help you with:
- Structuring your argument
- Writing clearer and more compelling prose
- Rewriting and editing
- Planning and time management
- Tackling the word count
- Critical thinking
- Paraphrasing

Samantha works Wednesdays and Thursdays during term time. Sessions last 50 minutes and take place in the Hugh Owen Library on Wednesdays and in the Llandinam Building on Thursdays.
Please note that RLF Writing Fellows do not undertake proofreading, or EAP or TEFL tuition.
Note: Samantha’s sessions are in English. To speak with a Welsh medium academic writing skills tutor who offers 1:1 academic support to students, please contact Dr Tamsin Davies, ted@aber.ac.uk
