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About the Centre for Academic Writing and Rhetoric

The Centre for Academic Writing and Rhetoric supports students at Bachelor’s and Master’s level at all stages of their studies. We help you develop your scientific communication skills for all types of texts and presentations.

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A short video introducing the Centre for Academic Writing and Rhetoric and its services.

At the Centre for Academic Writing and Rhetoric (CAS), we help you develop effective strategies to improve your scientific communication skills for all types of written and oral assignments. In the individual consultations, we work together on your text or presentation to help you:

  • get started with assignments, understand instructions, or deal with writer’s block
  • structure and develop your argument
  • develop strategies for revising, editing and proofreading
  • build awareness of the academic norms and conventions for communicating within your discipline
  • improve your pronunciation
  • evaluate AI writing tools so that you can use them critically and ethically

In addition to the individual consultations, the Centre arranges workshops, webinars and seminars on different aspects of scientific communication.

Background

The Centre for Academic Writing and Rhetoric was established on 12 January 2013, aligning with item number 6 under the Positions and Action Plan in the KTH Language Policy  (2010). The Language Policy is a document aiming to increase language awareness among students and staff and support KTH in its role as a multilingual and international university.

The Centre was initially called the Centre for Academic Writing, changing its name in December 2018 to the Centre for Academic Writing and Rhetoric to provide equal space to the support of students' oral skills. However, we have retained our abbreviation CAS.