Writing feedback

You can submit a plan, draft, or extract of your writing. We can also provide feedback on different formats (such as posters or presentations), but please note that our focus will be on areas such as clarity and structure. For maths and stats requests, we can focus on areas of your work such as statistical analysis and interpretation of results. As our feedback is designed to be developmental, we’ll typically look at a sample of your work to provide feedback that you can confidently apply elsewhere.

For larger projects, such as dissertations, we won’t provide feedback across all sections. If you asked for feedback on clarity, for instance, we would not feedback on this across your entire assignment. Instead, you should consider if there are certain sections where feedback would be useful, or it might be that you have different queries for different parts of your work.    

To gain developmental feedback on your work, you need to work through this online resource. Once completed, you will have access to a link to upload your assignment brief, a draft of your work, and to guide us in the focus for our feedback. If you encounter any issues with this online resource, please email us at [email protected].

We aim to provide feedback within four working days (Monday to Friday). Please factor this timescale in when submitting your work to us. All feedback is placed into a queue, and we respond to each submission in order of receipt. We don’t prioritise requests based on your deadline.

In line with the above, we cannot provide feedback on work with a deadline on the same or the next working day. Our feedback is developmental, meaning you wouldn’t be able to use it for last-minute changes to your work.

We also have closure periods during the academic year when we cannot accept submissions. These are during the University’s closure period over the winter break and also Good Friday and Easter Monday. We are closed on all English Bank Holidays too. It’s important that you plan your time effectively to make the most of writing feedback.

Our tutors will not proofread your assignments. Instead, our advice is designed to help you identify areas for development and to learn how to correct them. We’ll look at a sample of your work to provide feedback that you can apply elsewhere.

Similarly, our tutors will not correct your work. They will provide developmental comments within your text to prompt your thinking on the topic.

All registered students at Manchester Met can make use of the writing feedback service provided by the Academic and Study Skills team.

You can submit your work up to five times for either:

• academic writing support
• ormaths and statistics support

Once you reach five submissions, you’ll be asked to book a one-to-one appointment before using our writing feedback service again.

This is so we can chat with you about the feedback you’ve already received to see if other aspects of our provision might be beneficial, including our workshops and short courses.

After your one-to-one appointment, you may submit up to a further three pieces of work for writing feedback before we ask you to book another one-to-one appointment to discuss your learning. We would follow the same steps after you’ve submitted a further two pieces. We wouldn’t expect you to use the service more than ten times during an academic year.

Please note that these stages are separate for writing support and maths and stats support. You’re also very welcome to book a one-to-one appointment at any point if you have any questions you’d like to discuss in more depth with an Academic and Study Skills Tutor.