ABSTRACT
In this chapter we discuss ways in which we, as writing teachers, have responded to requests to help students develop their academic writing. In our experience of working with faculty in the social sciences in both the United Kingdom and Hong Kong one of the most commonly identified areas that faculty feel students need help with in their writing is in displaying a knowledge and understanding of the literature. Common concerns are that student writing does not demonstrate sufficient levels of engagement with the texts they have read or of synthesising ideas from these texts, and that the students’ writing betrays a lack of understanding of the field and of how to use key terms and concepts.
