The Division for Postgraduate Studies (DPGS) offers virtual mentoring to registered UWC postgraduate (PG) students.

DUTIES OF WRITING COACHES

  • Conduct a one-on-one academic interaction with postgraduate students on general academic writing skills.
  • Provide comprehensive assistance in writing skills within the context of organised, logical and coherent presentations of research proposals and theses.
  • Assist postgraduate students with supervisor's comments in proposals or thesis drafts.

DUTIES OF STATISTICAL COACHES

  • Assistance with the development of data collection tools (surveys, questionnaires, etc)
  • Data preparation and cleaning:
  • Master sheet preparation, coding and labelling
  • Data cleaning
  • Assist with data analysis
  • Use of data analysis software: SPSS and AtlasTi.
COACHES DO NOT WRITE FOR STUDENTS AND ARE NOT SUPERVISORS

To request and be assigned a writing or statistical coach, please complete the JOTFORM via the link below:
REQUEST DPGS COACH