
Welcome!
Please read the guidelines before booking a slot with our Writing Centre PCs
Guidelines
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Message Regarding Artificial Intelligence-Written Texts: The role of the Writing Centre is to discuss with writers how to improve their own work. Please do not bring any AI-generated texts to consultations. Consultants will not discuss how to improve such texts with students.
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You must be an undergraduate or a UGC-funded postgraduate student.
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Show your Student ID card when attending the session.
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If you want to cancel your booked timeslot, log into https://caes.hku.hk/css and click “Cancel this booking” at least 24 hours before the consultation, otherwise you will be marked as “absent”. If you are absent from 2 CSS sessions in a semester, you will be banned from booking for the rest of the semester.
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Please be punctual.
1:1 consultations:
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You can choose to meet your consultant face-to-face or on Zoom (please put a Zoom meeting link on the booking slot page).
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Put in your consultation goals & upload a file/link that you want the consultant to look at (no pdf files; 10MB max.) at least 24 hours before the consultation (e.g. upload your work on Thursday if your session is on the following Monday).
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Any assignment you upload for a consultation must be your own work. You cannot bring somebody else's assignment for a consultation.
Booking quotas for students:
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16 Jan - 18 Feb & 13 Mar - 31 Mar: You can book up to 4 sessions per week, and 2 sessions per day.
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20 Feb - 10 Mar & 3 Apr - 21 Apr: You can book 2 sessions per week, and 1 session per day.
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24 Apr - 12 May (Revision week): You can book 1 session per week.
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15 May - 18 Aug: You can book 2 sessions per week per unit.
Discussion Groups and Workshops:
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These are all held face-to-face.
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Check the discussion / workshop topics shown on the booking page, and select one you are interested in.
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Please be punctual.