Discipline · Arts & humanities
Academic support for arts and humanities students
Humanities marking rewards an argument that could be disagreed with, evidenced from primary and secondary sources and expressed precisely. We coach students out of summary and into interpretation.
What the support covers
How we help with arts & humanities
Thesis-driven essays
Building a contestable claim and sustaining it across an essay instead of narrating chronology or plot.
Source and archive work
Handling primary sources critically, situating them in historiography or theory, and citing them properly.
Theory without jargon
Applying critical and cultural theory so it does analytical work rather than decorating the paragraph.
Long-form projects
Structuring a dissertation of significant length with a coherent through-line and a realistic reading plan.
Fields covered
- History and historiography
- Literature and comparative literature
- Philosophy
- Media, film and communications
- Cultural studies
- Languages and linguistics
What we work on
- Essay planning and argument
- Close reading and textual analysis
- Historiographical and theoretical framing
- Dissertation structure and chapters
- MHRA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard referencing
Academic levels
We work with undergraduate and Bachelor's students on assignments, coursework, reports and final-year or capstone projects, and with Master's and PhD students on research proposals, literature reviews, methodology, data analysis, theses and dissertations.
English · Arabic · French
Coaching in English, Arabic and French is particularly useful in humanities, where students often read sources in one language and write in another.
Academic integrity
We coach, tutor and give feedback. Students research, build and submit their own assessed work, which keeps them inside their institution's academic integrity rules.
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Talk to a coach about your arts & humanities
Send us your course, level of study and deadline. We reply with an honest view of whether we can help and how — in English, Arabic or French.